1166305 - mercurial-setup should add progress extension by default

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Services :: General, task)

Description

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

I just watched some new interns attempt to clone mozilla-central, and it was pretty frustrating because they kept getting kicked off of the network. Probably the _most_ frustrating part, however, was that they didn't know where they were in the clone operation.

Apparently, there's a progress extension that ships with hg 1.5+. I suggest we consider enabling it for users in mercurial-setup.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

We already prompt for the progress extension in `mach mercurial-setup`. https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a69094e0f2a4/tools/mercurial/hgsetup/wizard.py#l250

I can't imagine anyone in their right mind saying no to that prompt.

FWIW, Mercurial intends to enable progress by default. I think there is only 1 blocker on that currently. Hopefully it makes it to 3.5. In the mean time, that blocker isn't important for us: we should consider removing the prompt and always enabling progress.

Comment 2

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

As of Mercurial 3.5, progress is now built into Mercurial core and enabled by default.