Re: [Monotone-devel] populating a depot server

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:54, graydon hoare wrote:
> a problem with the concept of "progress" (specifically the "amount
> left to do") is that the recursive poster generates the packets as
> it's exploring the ancestry tree. in theory I could do 2 passes -- one
> to get a number and one to generate the packets -- or produce some
> kind of calculated guess about how many packets will be going out.. up
> to you.

Some guess about the number of packets would be useful.  It has so far
burned about 2.5 hours of CPU generating 12500 packets (the laptop has
been suspended for a while), and I have no idea how much longer it will
take.

Rather than spending a lot of effort on progress reporting, it's
probably worth looking at how to improve performance of addtree...

> a similar issue applies when doing the cvs import actually, in that
> the most useful "amount of work left to do" number isn't exactly
> available. but maybe I can makeshift something which will converge at
> the same rate. I'd like the UI to feel non-clunky, so progress meters
> are important.

CVS import wasn't such a problem since it was clearly making progress
and didn't take too long.

One other question about CVS import: can I repeat it?  Since I'm going
to be tracking the CVS repository, I'd like to be able to reimport the
new changes.  Can I do this incrementally?

        J