Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > "Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> Only with the observation of "clone", I cannot tell if your timer is >>> working. You can try repacking the test repository you created by >>> your earlier "git clone" with "git repack -a -d -f" and see what >>> happens. >> >> It does update the counter too. > > Yeah, that was not a very good way to diagnose it. > > You see the progress from pack-objects (which is the underlying > machinery "git repack" uses) only because it knows how many objects > it is going to pack, and it updates the progress meter for every > per-cent progress it makes, without any help from the timer > interrupt. I think the "Counting objects: $number" phase is purely driven by the timer, as there is no way to say "we are done X per-cent so far". Doesn't your repack show "Counting objects: " with a number once, pause forever and then show "Counting objects: $number, done."? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html