Comment 6 for bug 339385

Fix now ready for review here: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~mbp/bzr/339385-set-progress-bar/+merge/7534

Some more work can be done:

* This doesn't re-add a dots progress bar, so you either get the full tty mode, or nothing. There are some cases where you do care to see some indication that *something* is happening, but you can't repaint a progress bar, and dots accommodated that. I never thought it looked very good or was very useful; you basically get a screen full of dots. If people do care about this case, please file another bug. Perhaps, as suggested on the list, bzr should instead respond to SIGUSR1 to print out just one line about its current status?

bug 387717 is about David I's issue of not wanting it sent to stderr, or not by default.

bug 388275 asks for a config file setting for this.