From: Marcus Griep <marcus@griep.us>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
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 12:42:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A46058.6090407@griep.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080814163446.GD10360@machine.or.cz>
Petr Baudis wrote:
> I'm confused - you didn't seem to really address my suggestion. Is there
> a good reason _not_ to go with the /.iB/ prefixes, and just forget about
> SI? Who is ever going to need SI?
It's more of a not limiting support, but in the spirit of YAGNI, I can
forget about SI until we find some reason to actually want it, and then
add it at that point.
As for the /.iB/ prefixes, other than the actual magnitude prefix, 'iB',
'B', 'bps', etc. would be supplied as a suffix by the consumer so as not
to assume that we will be formatting bytes or widgets, since conceivably
you may want to know that there are 203k objects (which would be an SI
use) or are transferring at a rate of 1.6k blobs/s.
In which case, it might be preferable to leave the SI in, since it would
allow more than just bytes to be formatted in shorter, human-readable
form.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-14 16:43 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
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 [this message]
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