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progress: narrower time display, multiple fixes
- Each time field is now 7 characters wide, so that the total width
  never exceeds 79 columns so that it works correctly also in Windows
  terminals. The title lines are adjusted accordingly.

  This is accomplished by using h:mm:ss style up to 10 hours, and for
  longer periods switch to "nnX nnY" style output. For hours, days,
  months and years.

  For less than one hour, the hour field is now dropped.

  When no time info is provided, the field is now space-only. No more
  `-:--:--`.

  Also fixed the output for really long times which previously was
  completely broken. The largest time now shows as ">99999y". (Becase
  I can't figure out a better way).

- For sizes, the widths are now properly fixed to 6 characters. When
  displaying a unit with less than 3 digits, it shows two decimal
  precision like "16777215 => 15.99M" and one decmal otherwise: "262143
  => 255.9k"

  Also fixes the decimal math. 131071 is 127.9k, which it previously did
  not show.

- The time and size field outputs are now properly verified in test
  1636.

Fixes #20122
Closes #20173

fixup use only space when no time exists

Drop the hour from the display when zero
2026-01-04 14:42:08 +01:00
.circleci runtests: detect bad libssh differently for test 1459 (fixing CircleCI libssh job) 2025-11-16 23:28:44 +01:00
.github GHA/macos: reduce number of combination jobs 2026-01-04 04:01:37 +01:00
CMake cmake: set found status to OFF when not found (for compression deps) 2026-01-02 01:29:47 +01:00
docs docs: add a note about --compressed to note about binary output 2026-01-04 00:10:40 +01:00
include tidy-up: miscellaneous 2025-12-26 22:06:09 +01:00
lib progress: narrower time display, multiple fixes 2026-01-04 14:42:08 +01:00
LICENSES krb5: drop support for Kerberos FTP 2025-09-20 23:58:28 +02:00
m4 openssl: drop includes unused or duplicate 2025-12-20 13:51:05 +01:00
packages os400sys: replace strcpy() with memcpy() 2025-12-24 23:53:40 +01:00
plan9 tidy-up: LibreSSL Git repository URLs and local CI builds 2025-10-01 12:55:20 +02:00
projects localtime: detect thread-safe alternatives and use them 2025-12-16 14:30:06 +01:00
scripts delta: fix grep patterns after white space edits 2025-12-30 14:04:10 +01:00
src tool_doswin: remove the max length check 2026-01-04 11:22:43 +01:00
tests progress: narrower time display, multiple fixes 2026-01-04 14:42:08 +01:00
.dir-locals.el copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: add 2025-09-02 08:36:40 +02:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
.gitattributes winbuild: MS-DOS batch tidy-ups 2024-07-02 19:26:15 +02:00
.gitignore build: drop the winbuild build system 2025-09-20 01:20:25 +02:00
.mailmap REUSE: add copyright header to two files 2025-11-03 16:08:52 +01:00
acinclude.m4 tidy-up: miscellaneous 2025-12-18 21:27:58 +01:00
appveyor.sh tidy-up: miscellaneous 2025-12-04 20:14:11 +01:00
appveyor.yml appveyor: add support for using custom CMake versions 2025-11-28 00:51:08 +01:00
buildconf copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
CHANGES.md CHANGES: fix typo in filename 2026-01-01 12:20:10 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt build: stop disabling strcpy checks with clang-tidy 2025-12-24 00:02:40 +01:00
configure.ac localtime: detect thread-safe alternatives and use them 2025-12-16 14:30:06 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: bump copyright year range to 1996 - 2025 2025-01-01 21:12:12 +01:00
curl-config.in autotools: tidy-up if expressions 2025-12-10 22:29:19 +01:00
Dockerfile Dockerfile: update debian:bookworm-slim Docker digest to d5d3f9c 2025-12-31 12:22:53 +01:00
GIT-INFO.md REUSE: add copyright header to two files 2025-11-03 16:08:52 +01:00
libcurl.pc.in configure: do not echo most inherited LDFLAGS to config files 2024-11-14 09:55:45 +01:00
Makefile.am cmake: match filename suffixes with file content 2025-12-20 11:34:27 +01:00
README FAQ/TODO/KNOWN_BUGS: convert to markdown 2025-12-09 10:52:56 +01:00
README.md tidy-up: URLs 2025-12-09 00:19:10 +01:00
RELEASE-NOTES RELEASE-NOTES: synced 2026-01-02 23:53:33 +01:00
renovate.json renovate: try to disable GitHub Actions updates differently 2025-12-14 09:17:08 +01:00
REUSE.toml FAQ/TODO/KNOWN_BUGS: convert to markdown 2025-12-09 10:52:56 +01:00
SECURITY.md docs: Clarify OpenSSF Best Practices vs Scorecard 2024-08-22 11:50:20 +02:00

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