From 3eebea8745cf71a1f87d8d988bdbaf6210ab5ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Antoine=20Beaupr=C3=A9?= Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:12:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] explain what the --progress flag does exactly an alternative to this would be to use more than a letter in the output, for example: orig: 16.82 GB comp: 9.44 GB dedup: 25.86 MB home/ --- borg/archiver.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/borg/archiver.py b/borg/archiver.py index 5a59fad18..72ad7f9f3 100644 --- a/borg/archiver.py +++ b/borg/archiver.py @@ -670,7 +670,10 @@ Type "Yes I am sure" if you understand this and want to continue.\n""") help='print statistics for the created archive') subparser.add_argument('-p', '--progress', dest='progress', action='store_true', default=False, - help='print progress while creating the archive') + help="""print progress while creating + the archive, showing Original, + Compressed and Deduplicated sizes, + followed by the path being processd""") subparser.add_argument('-e', '--exclude', dest='excludes', type=ExcludePattern, action='append', metavar="PATTERN", help='exclude paths matching PATTERN')