Re: Bug: Git: Clone: University Network: No Output on Terminal

[Manish Devgan <manish.nsit8@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:54 AM René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> wrote:

> How about something like this?
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] remote-curl: show progress for fetches over dumb HTTP
>
> Fetching over dumb HTTP transport doesn't show any progress, even with
> the option --progress.  If the connection is slow or there is a lot of
> data to get then this can take a long time while the user is left to
> wonder if git got stuck.
>
> We don't know the number of objects to fetch at the outset, but we can
> count the ones we got.  Show an open-ended progress indicator based on
> that number if the user asked for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> ---
>  remote-curl.c |  1 +
>  walker.c      | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  walker.h      |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c
> index 8eb96152f5..e4cd321844 100644
> --- a/remote-curl.c
> +++ b/remote-curl.c
> @@ -1026,6 +1026,7 @@ static int fetch_dumb(int nr_heads, struct ref **to_fetch)
>
>         walker = get_http_walker(url.buf);
>         walker->get_verbosely = options.verbosity >= 3;
> +       walker->get_progress = options.progress;
>         walker->get_recover = 0;
>         ret = walker_fetch(walker, nr_heads, targets, NULL, NULL);
>         walker_free(walker);
> diff --git a/walker.c b/walker.c
> index bb010f7a2b..4984bf8b3d 100644
> --- a/walker.c
> +++ b/walker.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>  #include "tag.h"
>  #include "blob.h"
>  #include "refs.h"
> +#include "progress.h"
>
>  static struct object_id current_commit_oid;
>
> @@ -162,6 +163,11 @@ static int process(struct walker *walker, struct object *obj)
>  static int loop(struct walker *walker)
>  {
>         struct object_list *elem;
> +       struct progress *progress = NULL;
> +       uint64_t nr = 0;
> +
> +       if (walker->get_progress)
> +               progress = start_delayed_progress(_("Fetching objects"), 0);
>
>         while (process_queue) {
>                 struct object *obj = process_queue->item;
> @@ -176,15 +182,20 @@ static int loop(struct walker *walker)
>                  */
>                 if (! (obj->flags & TO_SCAN)) {
>                         if (walker->fetch(walker, obj->oid.hash)) {
> +                               stop_progress(&progress);
>                                 report_missing(obj);
>                                 return -1;
>                         }
>                 }
>                 if (!obj->type)
>                         parse_object(the_repository, &obj->oid);
> -               if (process_object(walker, obj))
> +               if (process_object(walker, obj)) {
> +                       stop_progress(&progress);
>                         return -1;
> +               }
> +               display_progress(progress, ++nr);
>         }
> +       stop_progress(&progress);
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> diff --git a/walker.h b/walker.h
> index 6d8ae00e5b..d40b016bab 100644
> --- a/walker.h
> +++ b/walker.h
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ struct walker {
>         int (*fetch)(struct walker *, unsigned char *sha1);
>         void (*cleanup)(struct walker *);
>         int get_verbosely;
> +       int get_progress;
>         int get_recover;
>
>         int corrupt_object_found;
> --
> 2.25.1

This is great. But perhaps I would want the output to come
irrespective of --progress argument in case of dumb_http.

Thanks & Regards
Manish Devgan