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by ComputerGuru 541 days ago
Bug: url checker is case sensitive. For those of us that type out the url from memory on a stupid touch-type device with auto incorrect, you’ll get things like Http(s)://Github

Also might want to coalesce https and http

Not sure if it queues jobs for processing so that when I refresh after a failure it is continuing where it left off or if it is starting over anew? “Progress bar” makes it hard to say.

Aside: I dislike the “modern progress bar” that’s just a scrolling marquee of pithy quips. One of the difficult problems I worked on for a SW project was adding sane progress to a multi-stage backup tool so that the completed percentage and ETA correctly represented a mix of millions of single kb files and random multi-gb files, backed up across multiple pipelines on multiple cores, asynchronously piping from one stage to the next with buffering. Needed to add a good progress metric without poisoning cpu core caches or hurting the efficiency of how work was being divided. This doesn’t seem as hard by comparison!

Sorry for only having tangentially relevant things to report at this time; still waiting for it to finish with the fish-shell codebase so I can give some good feedback!

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It’s also unclear why you have to enter the prefix https://github.com in the first place.