Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] progress: Fix progress meters when dealing with lots of work

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:18:01 +0900

Elijah Newren <[email-masked]> writes:

>   2) Instead of counting pairs of source/dest files compared, just
> count number of dest paths completed.  (Thus, we wouldn't need a value
> big enough to hold rename_dst_nr * rename_src_nr, just big enough to
> hold rename_dst_nr).

This sounds like the most sensible thing to do even if we do switch
to larger integer size, but that is orthogonal to the main point of
this series.