progress bar for "finding fileprop revids" is misleading

[Kevin Smith]

I had an empty bzr repo and tried this:

kevins@vanessa:~/work/miradi/eclipse/miradi$ bzr pull svn+ssh://subversion.benetech.org/opt/svn/repositories/benetech.org/Miradi/trunk -r1
[##########\ ] 255KB 0KB/s | finding fileprop revids 7911/14949

The KB keeps going up and up, but the numbers at the far right keep recycling. The following were all copied, in order, while I was composing this bug report:
[############\ ] 280KB 0KB/s | finding fileprop revids 9973/14949
[##################- ] 285KB 0KB/s | finding fileprop revids 13989/14949
[############/ ] 290KB 0KB/s | finding fileprop revids 9852/14949
[##################/ ] 307KB 0KB/s | finding fileprop revids 14072/14949
[##- ] 336KB 0KB/s | finding fileprop revids 2108/14949
[##########| ] 498KB 0KB/s | finding fileprop revids 8465/14949

(the reason it always shows 0KB/s here is because I can only copy text off the console when it is briefly stalled). This is a repository which I have successfully pulled from in other ways in the last couple days.

Running bzr 2.0.0 and bzr-svn 1.0.0

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

The progress indicator might just the bit that is confusing here - I doubt it's actually going into an endless loop. Do you have a lot of merges in that repository, pushed by Bazaar?

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Can you try just letting it run for a while, and seeing whether it's just slow rather than looping?

[Kevin Smith (ubuntu-qualitycode)]

Ugh. I have no idea what changed, but I can't reproduce this any more. It did it several times yesterday, in different directories, during different work sessions. I let it run for a few minutes before quitting. Today, I tried twice and it didn't happen.

[Kevin Smith (ubuntu-qualitycode)]

I forgot to answer your other question: That repo probably has 20-50 revisions that were merged in from offline bzr work. All of them were pretty late (around revno 15000). There were definitely no merges before revno 1 that I was attempting to pull.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This is just slow, and the progress indicator isn't very helpful (since it's redisplayed for each revision). It's not an endless loop though.