gvfs-helper: simplify progress output during prefetch #594
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GVFS Protocol.
A user reported confusion when presented with the progress indicators for several
git index-pack
subprocesses during a prefetch. This happened by surprise, and is related to our issues with GVFS Cache Servers rejecting credentials and thus halting background maintenance until a foreground fetch happens.In the meantime, we can modify our progress output to be simpler in this case. There are two changes:
git index-pack
. It would be preferrable to pass a-q
parameter, but it is not available. This prevents two progress indicators per prefetch packfile.Installing prefetch packfiles: ..% (X/Y)
indicator in the loop that installs these packfiles viagit index-pack
. This shows progress feedback frequently enough that users know something is happening without overwhelming their terminal interface.