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Went out and tried for the second time to record a screencast demoing
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setting up syncing between two computers using just Jabber and a cloud
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remote. I can't record this one at home, or viewers would think git-annex
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was crazy slow, when it's just my dialup. ;) But once again I encountered
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bugs, and so I found myself working on progress bars today, unexpectedly.
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Seems there was confusion in different parts of the progress bar code
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about whether an update contained the total number of bytes transferred, or
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the delta of bytes transferred since the last update. One way this bug
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showed up was progress bars that seemed to stick at 0% for a long time.
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Happened for most special remotes, although not for rsync or git remotes.
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In order to fix it comprehensively, I added a new BytesProcessed data type,
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that is explicitly a total quantity of bytes, not a delta. And checked and
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fixed all the places that used a delta as that type was knitted into
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the code.
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(Note that this doesn't necessarily fix every problem with progress bars.
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Particularly, buffering can now cause progress bars to seem to run ahead
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of transfers, reaching 100% when data is still being uploaded. Still,
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they should be a lot better than before.)
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I've just successfully run through the Jabber + Cloud remote setup process
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again, and it seems to be working great now. Maybe I'll still get the
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screencast recorded by the end of March.
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