Suggestion: Progress bar for merges

[Kieren]

This would be really nice for when merging a large number of commits. Often I find myself checking the commit number it's up to in my list to see how far through it is, seeing a progress bar would be really satisfying.

Assuming this isn't too difficult to setup, it knows the number of commits so just segment that for the bar?

Cheers.

[Daniel Sahlberg]

Such a progress bar could be very inaccurate:

- There will usually be holes in the revision number sequence, so even if merging revisions 1000-1099 there might not be 100 revisions to be merged. The progress bar obviously have to have 100 steps but only a few of them might actually be in the merge source.

- Each commit can be different in size so even if the number of commits to be merged is correct, some might go very fast and some might take a long time.

- I'm not sure how easy it is to figure out the number of commits to be merged when you merge "all". The code obviously exists but I'm not sure how much is exposed in the existing APIs.

The problem reminds me of xkcd 612: https://xkcd.com/612/

I'm not against the idea as such, just asking how useful it would be.

Kind regards,

Daniel

[Kieren]

I think it would still be useful, I don't think many expect progress bars in apps to signify time these days  - just the progress of working through each commit which I'd love in visual clarity.

If not as a progress bar then even as written to easily gauge, "(commit 52/230)" or something.

Thanks.