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28 lines
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Currently, git-annex takes a very lazy approch to displaying
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progress into. It just lets rsync or whatever display the progress
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for it, in the terminal.
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Something better is needed for the [[webapp]]. There needs to be a
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way for the web app to know what the current progress is of all transfers.
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This is one of those potentially hidden but time consuming problems.
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## downloads
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* Watch temp file as it's coming in and use its size.
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This is the only option for some special remotes (ie, non-rsync).
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Can either poll every .5 seconds or so to check file size, or
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could use inotify. Implemented.
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* Feed rsync output into a parser and parse out a progress value. Ugly,
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failure prone, but potentially the least CPU-expensive option.
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* Use librsync. Note: It's not wire-compatiable with the actual rsync
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command.
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* Set up a FIFO, have rsync read from or write to that, and the FIFO
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feeder/reader then can update the transfer info. Generic enough to
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work for most (all?) special remotes, but also the most expensive option,
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involving another copy through memory of the whole file contents.
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## uploads
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Cannot use temp file, as we're not receiving it. Rsync progress parser,
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librsync, and FIFO all work.
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