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Re: [PATCH 2] count-objects: add human-readable size option

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Marcus Griep <marcus@griep.us>
Date
Aug 14, 2008, 14:09 UTC
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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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  1. count-objects: Add total pack size to verbose outputMarcus Griep, Aug 13, 2008
  2. count-objects: add human-readable size optionMarcus Griep, Aug 14, 2008
  3. Shawn O. PearceAug 14, 2008
  4. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 14, 2008
  7. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
  8. Alex RiesenAug 14, 2008
  9. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
  10. Alex RiesenAug 14, 2008
  11. Pierre HabouzitAug 15, 2008
  12. Alex RiesenAug 18, 2008
  13. Johannes SixtAug 14, 2008
  14. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
  15. Petr BaudisAug 14, 2008
  16. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
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