Follow 4 patches that rework progress.c a bit so that one stage only takes one line of output with a progress bar. Some of the patch fix (IMHO) pointless lines to print on screen (even for debugging purposes). With those patches, running git gc looks like: $ git gc Counting objects : 10095 Deltifying objects : [===================================================] 100% Writing objects : [==========================> ] 50% [...] Counting objects : 10095 Deltifying objects : [===================================================] 100% Writing objects : [===================================================] 100% Pruning objects : [===================================================] 100% I don't believe those patches are 100% okay yet, because it doesn't plays that nice during a clone (it's not horribly broken, merely surprising). But it sketches what it could look like. - 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