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

From
Marcus Griep <marcus@griep.us>
Date
Aug 14, 2008, 16:42 UTC
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<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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  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
  17. Petr BaudisAug 14, 2008
  18. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008

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