LibGit2Sharp Unresponsiveness

Question

I've been looking around and I'm looking for a way to make my git files pull, but not loose responsiveness of my launcher. I've done reading on asynchronously and I'm not sure if it's even possible. Right now I have

private void Install() {
       Repository.Clone("Myrepourl", "Localinstall");
}

It's a rather large bit of information to pull, so I'd like to give them updates as it moves from Rep as it pulls from 4 repos I have total. IE

private void Install() {
       Repository.Clone("url", "local");
       installstatus.Text = "Pulling next repo";
       Repository.Clone("url", "local");
}

Can this be ran asynchronously or is it only going to work synchronously?

Answer 1

Running the Clone in a Task with TransferProgress events is the way I go about it.

Task-based Console Example:

class MainClass
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Task.Run(() =>
        {
            Repository.Clone("https://github.com/sushihangover/SVGKit.Binding", Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "foobar"),
                new CloneOptions { OnTransferProgress = MainClass.TransferProgress });
        }).Wait();
    }

    public static bool TransferProgress(TransferProgress progress)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Objects: {progress.ReceivedObjects} of {progress.TotalObjects}, Bytes: {progress.ReceivedBytes}");
        return true;
    }
}