From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:07:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an option to git-ls-tree to display also the size of object Message-ID: <7vabw5h8yb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200705160254.38463.jnareb@gmail.com> Jakub Narebski writes: > 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... The same "the size of this type of object is not given", I would say.