RFC Add update_progress(), divert checkout messages

From: Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <[email protected]>

Whereas only syntactic sugar, i think it's a bit odd that during a checkout which mostly removes files the git-checkout progress displays "Checking out files" all of the time.

There are two solutions to this: either simply change that string to "Updating working tree", which is acceptable to anybody at anytime. Or divert what progress reports to the actual action which is currently performed. This series tries to achieve the latter.

But maybe progress should instead be extended that it could handle a situation like the following directly. I.e., offer an additional start_parted_progress() series, or extend the current one with an additional "signed parted" argument. That update_progress() could then instead be named progress_change_part() or whatever. ?

Updating work tree: removing files (x/y [xy%]) total%
Main-Title Action-title Action-cnt

Steffen Daode Nurpmeso (2):
progress: add update_progress()
unpack-trees: divert check_updates() output via update_progress()

 progress.c     |   15 +++++++++++++++
 progress.h     |    2 ++
 unpack-trees.c |   30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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