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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

  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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