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From: Marcus Griep <marcus@griep.us>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2] count-objects: add human-readable size option
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:09:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A43C8A.9010309@griep.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A3E142.9060606@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt wrote:
> No need to die here. Just make the buffer large enough, and you can have
> something that is as large as 18446744073709551615Y.

In my initial rendition, the output was guaranteed not to be longer than 5
characters.  However, you're right that there's no need to die, but perhaps
just return a negative value equal to the size over the user's requested
maxlen.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-14 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-13 20:05 [PATCH] count-objects: Add total pack size to verbose output Marcus Griep
2008-08-14  4:21 ` [PATCH 2] count-objects: add human-readable size option Marcus Griep
2008-08-14  4:38   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-14  4:44     ` Marcus Griep
2008-08-14  5:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-14 14:05       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-14 14:26       ` Marcus Griep
2008-08-14  6:45   ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-14 14:03     ` Marcus Griep
2008-08-14 18:51       ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-15  9:22         ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-08-18 17:28           ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-14  7:39   ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-14 14:09     ` Marcus Griep [this message]
2008-08-14 15:14   ` Petr Baudis
2008-08-14 16:26     ` Marcus Griep
2008-08-14 16:34       ` Petr Baudis
2008-08-14 16:42         ` Marcus Griep

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