ipfs/kubo

For "ipfs get" display an absolute number of retrieved files as well

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#4706 opened on Feb 15, 2018

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Description

Version information:

0.4.13-cc01b7f

Type:

Enhancement.

Description:

Currently, when you do ipfs get you get a nice progress bar showing you percentage of retrieved data and size (and progress bar). The issue is that sometimes this looks like it is stuck. We have a dataset which is altogether around 37 GB, and we have few files for few GB, but then hundreds of thousand of few bytes. When downloading this, when ipfs get to those small file,s it looks like it is stuck. Size is not really changing (because it is rounded to GB) and percentage and progress bar is not really changing (because again, files are small in comparison with everything). We had issues thinking that there are errors and that retrieved stopped (see #4690) because of related but not critical errors by ipfs daemon. But in fact things are working and more files are being added. So if there would be just a simple count of files retrieved, this could show that something is happening.

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Tech stack
go
Domain
cli
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
clear
Prerequisites
Go programming basicsIPFS CLI understanding
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
70
Research direction
The issue requests adding a file count to the `ipfs get` progress output. Investigate the `ipfs get` command implementation in `core/commands/get.go` and the progress bar mechanism (likely in `core/commands/` or a utility package). The goal is to increment a counter each time a file is written and display it alongside the existing progress (size, percentage). No linked PRs or assignees are present, so the issue is available for contribution.