From: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-clone --how-much-disk-space-will-this-cost-me? [--depth n]
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:22:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4946F4D9.8050803@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wqhxaex.fsf@jidanni.org>
Hi!
jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> The git-clone manpage should mention how to determine how much disk
> space will be used.
> [...]
> And don't tell us to just figure it out from the progress messages
> after the download begins, and hit ^C if we don't like it.
Maybe that's a dumb answer, but... why not? This works pretty
well for me.
> Nope, nowhere does it directly say "You Holmes, are in for 27
> Megabytes (on your piddly modem)". There obviously is math involved to
> figure it out... math!
So maybe what you really want is an ETA display during the cloning
process? Sounds like a good idea to me.
jlh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-16 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-15 23:53 git-clone --how-much-disk-space-will-this-cost-me? [--depth n] jidanni
2008-12-16 0:22 ` Jean-Luc Herren [this message]
2008-12-16 0:37 ` jidanni
2008-12-16 2:07 ` Jean-Luc Herren
2008-12-16 5:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-17 15:44 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-12-17 16:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-17 16:21 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-12-17 16:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-17 16:48 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-12-17 16:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-16 0:43 ` Jeff King
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