From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 5/3] Alternative --dirstat implementation, based on diffstat analysis
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:22:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vr597nm86.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104130003.02869.johan@herland.net> (Johan Herland's message of "Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:03:02 +0200")
Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:
> So, how should we count binary files in the diffstat version of
> --dirstat?
IIRC, the reason Linus used the "change" (not "lines") damage computation
in dirstat was exactly for this reason.
Comparing and combining the damage as number of lines and changed bytes
simply does not make much sense, so my gut answer to this question is "we
shouldn't". The --numstat mode punts exactly for this reason, to avoid
tempting people to add numbers up without thinking and getting nonsense
results.
I suspect that any heuristics is as good as your divide-by-64; you
probably could run count_lines(one->data, one->size) in the text diff
codepath in builtin_diffstat() to keep a running average of the line
lengths of the files involved, but I do not think it is worth it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-07 13:49 BUG? in --dirstat when rearranging lines in a file Johan Herland
2011-04-07 14:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-07 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-07 22:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-08 14:46 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-08 14:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] --dirstat: Document shortcomings compared to --stat or regular diff Johan Herland
2011-04-08 19:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-08 14:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] --dirstat-by-file: Make it faster and more correct Johan Herland
2011-04-08 14:55 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/3] Teach --dirstat to not completely ignore rearranged lines Johan Herland
2011-04-08 15:04 ` BUG? in --dirstat when rearranging lines in a file Linus Torvalds
2011-04-08 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-10 22:48 ` [PATCHv2 0/3] --dirstat fixes Johan Herland
2011-04-10 22:48 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] --dirstat: Describe non-obvious differences relative to --stat or regular diff Johan Herland
2011-04-10 22:48 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] --dirstat-by-file: Make it faster and more correct Johan Herland
2011-04-11 18:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-10 22:48 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] Teach --dirstat to not completely ignore rearranged lines within a file Johan Herland
2011-04-11 21:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-11 21:56 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-11 22:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-12 9:22 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-12 9:24 ` [PATCH 4/3] --dirstat: In case of renames, use target filename instead of source filename Johan Herland
2011-04-12 14:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-12 9:26 ` [RFC/PATCH 5/3] Alternative --dirstat implementation, based on diffstat analysis Johan Herland
2011-04-12 14:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-12 15:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-12 22:03 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-12 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-12 22:22 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-04-26 0:01 ` [PATCH 0/6] --dirstat fixes, part 2 Johan Herland
2011-04-26 0:01 ` [PATCH 1/6] Add several testcases for --dirstat and friends Johan Herland
2011-04-26 0:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] Make --dirstat=0 output directories that contribute < 0.1% of changes Johan Herland
2011-04-26 0:01 ` [PATCH 3/6] Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-file Johan Herland
2011-04-26 16:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 2:02 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-27 4:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-26 0:01 ` [PATCH 4/6] Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behavior Johan Herland
2011-04-26 16:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 2:02 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-26 0:01 ` [PATCH 5/6] Use floating point for --dirstat percentages Johan Herland
2011-04-26 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 2:02 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-27 4:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 4:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-27 5:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-26 0:01 ` [PATCH 6/6] New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstat Johan Herland
2011-04-26 16:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 2:02 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-26 0:15 ` [PATCH 0/6] --dirstat fixes, part 2 Linus Torvalds
2011-04-27 2:12 ` [PATCHv2 " Johan Herland
2011-04-27 2:12 ` [PATCHv2 1/6] Add several testcases for --dirstat and friends Johan Herland
2011-04-27 2:12 ` [PATCHv2 2/6] Make --dirstat=0 output directories that contribute < 0.1% of changes Johan Herland
2011-04-27 2:12 ` [PATCHv2 3/6] Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-file Johan Herland
2011-04-27 2:12 ` [PATCHv2 4/6] Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behavior Johan Herland
2011-04-27 2:12 ` [PATCHv2 5/6] Use floating point for --dirstat percentages Johan Herland
2011-04-27 2:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-27 2:12 ` [PATCHv2 6/6] New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstat Johan Herland
2011-04-27 8:24 ` [PATCHv3 0/6] --dirstat fixes, part 2 Johan Herland
2011-04-27 8:24 ` [PATCHv3 1/6] Add several testcases for --dirstat and friends Johan Herland
2011-04-27 8:24 ` [PATCHv3 2/6] Make --dirstat=0 output directories that contribute < 0.1% of changes Johan Herland
2011-04-27 8:24 ` [PATCHv3 3/6] Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-file Johan Herland
2011-04-27 8:24 ` [PATCHv3 4/6] Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behavior Johan Herland
2011-04-27 8:24 ` [PATCHv3 5/6] Allow specifying --dirstat cut-off percentage as a floating point number Johan Herland
2011-04-27 8:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-27 10:29 ` [PATCHv4 " Johan Herland
2011-04-27 8:24 ` [PATCHv3 6/6] New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstat Johan Herland
2011-04-28 1:17 ` [PATCHv5 0/7] --dirstat fixes, part 2 Johan Herland
2011-04-28 1:17 ` [PATCHv5 1/7] Add several testcases for --dirstat and friends Johan Herland
2011-04-28 1:17 ` [PATCHv5 2/7] Make --dirstat=0 output directories that contribute < 0.1% of changes Johan Herland
2011-04-28 1:17 ` [PATCHv5 3/7] Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-file Johan Herland
2011-04-28 1:17 ` [PATCHv5 4/7] Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behavior Johan Herland
2011-04-28 1:17 ` [PATCHv5 5/7] Allow specifying --dirstat cut-off percentage as a floating point number Johan Herland
2011-04-28 1:17 ` [PATCHv5 6/7] New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstat Johan Herland
2011-04-28 1:17 ` [PATCHv5 7/7] Improve error handling when parsing dirstat parameters Johan Herland
2011-04-28 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-28 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-28 23:16 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-28 23:13 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-29 4:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-29 9:36 ` [PATCHv6 0/8] --dirstat fixes, part 2 Johan Herland
2011-04-29 9:36 ` [PATCHv6 1/8] Add several testcases for --dirstat and friends Johan Herland
2011-04-29 9:36 ` [PATCHv6 2/8] Make --dirstat=0 output directories that contribute < 0.1% of changes Johan Herland
2011-04-29 9:36 ` [PATCHv6 3/8] Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-file Johan Herland
2011-04-29 9:36 ` [PATCHv6 4/8] Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behavior Johan Herland
2011-04-29 9:36 ` [PATCHv6 5/8] Allow specifying --dirstat cut-off percentage as a floating point number Johan Herland
2011-04-29 9:36 ` [PATCHv6 6/8] New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstat Johan Herland
2011-04-29 9:36 ` [PATCHv6 7/8] Improve error handling when parsing dirstat parameters Johan Herland
2011-04-29 9:36 ` [PATCHv6 8/8] Mark dirstat error messages for translation Johan Herland
2011-04-12 18:34 ` [RFC/PATCH 5/3] Alternative --dirstat implementation, based on diffstat analysis Junio C Hamano
2011-04-10 23:17 ` [PATCHv2 0/3] --dirstat fixes Linus Torvalds
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