mbed-cli offers no progress indicator for 'update'

Created on 23 May 2016 · 11Comments · Source: ARMmbed/mbed-cli

Users would benefit from a progress indicator when calling mbed-cli update.

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rgrover

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We need progress bar. The user experience is not great atm.

MarceloSalazar on 23 May 2016

Nice feature, but low priority right now.

ghost on 23 May 2016

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In addition:
Running 'mbed new xxx ' on git bash console shows no info at all until process finishes.

MarceloSalazar on 23 May 2016

Can you try -v to any command and see if that's working for you?

screamerbg on 23 May 2016

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Running with -v does show lots of info.
It would be nice to have some of the output displayed by default.

MarceloSalazar on 23 May 2016

I would vote that -v should be the default and then add -q to revert that.

Detecting the progress from Git (or hg) output might be too complex so it won't probably pay off for spending time on it. I'm actually not sure they will tell you how long it is going to take.

SeppoTakalo on 14 Jun 2016

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Here is good evidence on why we need a bar with progress indicator: https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-cli/issues/367

Our colleague Xiao based in Shanghai is seeing mbed CLI being stuck (network there is really slow)

MarceloSalazar on 12 Oct 2016

I don't know if it is relevant, but I was having the same problem - seemingly forever mbed add's. So much so that I killed and restarted them several times. Then i used the -vv as per the above suggestion and progress was much much faster (before I got 1 MB downloaded of the mbed-dev repo in about 45 minutes, after it took about 3 minutes to get to 3.2MB. It is big so it will take a while, but it is moving. And for that matter - with the -vv option, once it gets going it DOES give a status bar with progress indicated and estimated time. THanks!