Hello, it would be nice if there was a silent/quiet mode for fossil update so that it will not show all the files it updates. It takes a while for the terminal to scroll through hundreds of thousands of files, atleast on windows.

silent/quiet mode for fossil update

What's wrong with…

C:\PATH\TO\CHECKOUT> fossil update > NUL

hundreds of thousands of files

May I be permitted to know why you have so many files in a single repository? Every Fossil commit artifact grows by the total number of files in the repo. Another organization might be advisable.

atleast on windows.

True. On the first-gen M1 laptop I'm typing this on:

$ ls -lR / > /tmp/lotsa-files.txt         # …followed by Ctrl-C in another tab, later
$ wc -l /tmp/lotsa-files.txt
  538786 /tmp/lotsa-files.txt
$ time cat /tmp/lotsa-files.txt
  0.00s user 0.10s system 9% cpu 1.086 total

Round numbers, 1 second to display 500k lines.

I then copied that over to a Windows 11 ARM64 VM, opened a PowerShell instance in Microsoft Terminal and said:

PS C:\Users\wyoung> Measure-Command { type Desktop\lotsa-files.txt | Out-Default }
…
Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 59
Milliseconds      : 70
Ticks             : 590706845
TotalDays         : 0.000683688478009259
TotalHours        : 0.0164085234722222
TotalMinutes      : 0.984511408333333
TotalSeconds      : 59.0706845
TotalMilliseconds : 59070.6845

Sixty…times…longer!

In a WSL2 shell on the same host, running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in the same Terminal instance, running the macOS version of the command gives:

real    0m19.149s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m5.703s

Only nineteen times longer.

Switching to an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM on the same hardware:

$ time cat lotsa-files.txt
0.00s user 0.20s system 23% cpu 0.879 total

Same as under macOS, more or less.

I think the lesson is clear: ditch Windows. 🤓

C:PATHTOCHECKOUT> fossil update > NUL

I didn't think of this, I'll use this for now thanks. But I don't get to see the summary.

May I be permitted to know why you have so many files in a single repository? > Every Fossil commit artifact grows by the total number of files in the repo. > Another organization might be advisable.

It's decompilation of software, I have no control over how many files gets created.

I think the lesson is clear: ditch Windows. 🤓

I wish I could :)

But I don't get to see the summary

Nor will you see any warnings about merge conflicts.

How long does it take if you redirect the output to a file instead?

Then you can still peruse if you wish to.

I've no idea if it might even be slower.