From: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:22:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git-clone --how-much-disk-space-will-this-cost-me? [--depth n]
Message-ID: <4946F4D9.8050803@gmx.ch>
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