Subject: bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 23:17:41 +0200

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> When I run “guix pull” (or “guix time-machine”) I see this message
>
>    Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
>
> followed by disconcerting silence.  I can’t tell if it’s doing
> something, nor can I see what the progress is.

For the record, the main missing piece is in Guile-Git, which does not
yet provide bindings to the progress-report thingie for fetch
operations.

Ludo’.