fetch --all gives no initial indication of progress.

[Insti]

On running: exercism fetch --all ruby
It did nothing for a long time (tens of seconds) before displaying all the exercises it had downloaded/updated/etc.

I assume it was doing something networky and fetching a lot of things.

It would be nice if there was a helpful message that appeared immediately that said something reassuring like: fetching all ruby exercises from the website...

[lcowell]

You can use exercism --verbose fetch ruby to see the individual steps being taken. The output isn't super friendly, but could be useful if you're debugging a network issue.

[jtigger]

@Insti, is that sufficient for what you were wanting? (looking to see if there's more to explore, here, or if we should close this issue)

[Insti]

Using the --verbose option is not the solution I was hoping for.
I wanted a helpful message indicating progress to be provided in the default case.

[kytrinyx]

How about implementing something like this? http://whipperstacker.com/2015/10/05/silence-noisy-output-from-command-line-tools-by-monitoring-progress-with-siginfo/

[Insti]

All I'm requesting is that before it starts fetching all the exercises, it prints a single line telling you it's going to do this, it should be a 1 line change. (Plus a couple more for tests..)

[Tonkpils]

Seems reasonable to me, I'll try to get to it this week 👍 unless someone else beats me to it 😄

[Insti]

Many thanks @Tonkpils ❤️