Merge branch 'load-progress': never look hung during startup

README.md

@@ -395,9 +395,11 @@ all dupe rows) in human units.
 Use the progress-bar library for all scan progress; rendering in the
 style of `pv` is the model. All progress goes to stderr.
 
-Each phase gets its own display. The walk has no known total while
+Each phase gets its own display, rendered the moment the phase
-running: show a live file count, rate, and elapsed time
+starts — a scan must never look hung. Loading the existing-record
-(spinner-style, no percentage or ETA). The hash and update phases
+index (`load`) and the walk have no known totals while running: show
+a live count, rate, and elapsed time (spinner-style, no percentage or
+ETA). The hash and update phases
 have exact totals — only files that actually need hashing appear in
 the hash total, so its ETA is meaningful. Required elements for the
 bars with known totals:

progress.go

@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ func newProgress(label string, total int64) *progress {
 		progressbar.OptionSetItsString("files"),
 		progressbar.OptionSetElapsedTime(true),
 		progressbar.OptionThrottle(barThrottle),
+		// Render at zero immediately: a phase must be visible the
+		// moment it starts, even before its first item completes.
+		progressbar.OptionSetRenderBlankState(true),
 	}
 	if total >= 0 {
 		opts = append(opts,

scan.go

@@ -186,10 +186,17 @@ func syncScan(db *sql.DB, roots []string, workers int,
 // can be recognized as a possible duplicate of a tree scanned
 // separately into the same database.
 func (s *scanState) loadIndex(roots []string) error {
+	// Indexing tens of millions of records takes real time; without a
+	// display the scan looks hung before the walk begins.
+	prog := newProgress("load", -1)
+	defer prog.finish()
+
 	s.existing = make(map[string]fileMeta)
 
 	return loadFileMeta(s.db,
 		func(path string, size, mtime int64, hashed bool) {
+			prog.increment()
+
 			if underAnyRoot(path, roots) {
 				s.existing[path] = fileMeta{
 					size: size, mtime: mtime, hashed: hashed,