Missing "transferred kbytes" in TortoiseSVN update or checkout dialog

Question

In former times, with older versions of TortoiseSVN (I think at least TortoiseSVN 1.6.x), I got the feedback how many kbytes or mbytes were transferred when using the checkout or update dialog in TortoiseSVN.

Nowadays (with TortoiseSVN 1.8.x), this information is just missing. When I do a checkout, I see during the checkout the information flying through Transferring at x kbytes/sec, but at the end, I only get: Added: x

Why is that information not any more visible? Is there a way to see it again?

Answer 1

Here is what the author of TortoiseSVN, Stephan Küng has answered in the forum question:

As for why it was removed: I got tired of explaining why the total amount of transferred data didn't match with what users expected. And since it rarely matched the expectations, why even show it?

Reasons for why it doesn't match: the total bytes transferred include authentication data (can be a lot when authenticating against a domain), the data can be compressed, only changes are sent/received and not whole files, ...

So that explains in details why it was changed (but I liked the additional information I got).