lördag 6 november 2021 kl. 13:45:01 UTC+1 skrev Stefan:

> On Saturday, November 6, 2021 at 11:16:38 AM UTC+1 David Balažic wrote:
>
>> There is a simple solution for that: mark/label the value appropriately
>>
>> Like: approximate amount of data to transfer
>> Or: data amount estimate: up to x MB
>>
>>
> post subject: bug: approximation is useless
> post subject: estimate is completely wrong, please fix
> post subject: bug: transferred data completely wrong
> ...
>
> Even if you say it's "up to" or an "approximation", it won't help.
>
> Just search the internet about the progress bar when copying files in the 
> explorer, or the progress bar when installing windows updates, or ...
>

I agree with the assessment that labeling this feature as "estimate of data 
transfer" will be a cause of all kinds of bug reports "your estimate is 
wrong". Even if Subversion offered a way to deltify the files in advance to 
give a reasonable estimate of the transfer size, YMMV because of different 
thing: network overhead, on-the-wire compression to mention a few.

Would it make a difference to just label it as a "sum of selected file 
size" and never mentioning transfer size?

Kind regards,
Daniel


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