From: Jakub Narebski Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:54:37 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an option to git-ls-tree to display also the size of object Message-ID: <200705160254.38463.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vps51hacw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jakub Narebski writes: >> Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>   Also I suspect that having to show the size of a tree object, >>>   expressed in terms of the canonical representation, might >>>   force packv4 aware ls-tree to convert its traversal efficient >>>   representation to the canonical one only to get its size. >> >> It still will be accessible, but perhaps it would be less efficient >> with v4 pack. It is I think acceptable that -l needs more CPU (and I/O) >> time... > > Shawn answered this better than I could.  I am moderately > negative on the size of tree objects part. > > But modulo these details, I agree that being able to get the > size of each blob would be useful. We can always return ' ', '-', or '0' as size for tree entries. I wonder what to do about commits/gitlinks/subprojects... -- Jakub Narebski Poland