From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean-Luc Herren Subject: Re: git-clone --how-much-disk-space-will-this-cost-me? [--depth n] Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:22:49 +0100 Message-ID: <4946F4D9.8050803@gmx.ch> References: <878wqhxaex.fsf@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jidanni@jidanni.org, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 16 01:24:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LCNjU-00075R-K9 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:24:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755019AbYLPAWx (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:22:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753178AbYLPAWw (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:22:52 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:45097 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754622AbYLPAWw (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:22:52 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2008 00:22:49 -0000 Received: from 36-167.3-85.cust.bluewin.ch (EHLO [192.168.123.204]) [85.3.167.36] by mail.gmx.net (mp064) with SMTP; 16 Dec 2008 01:22:49 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14737133 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/zT2IqTKHzn/V5UZ0eaarmuYdMoqqPhV0ZsSc692 CWCIhJAYGIeCNy User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081123) In-Reply-To: <878wqhxaex.fsf@jidanni.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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