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Re: [PATCH v2] count-objects: output "KiB" instead of "kilobytes"

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Mihai Capotă <mihai@mihaic.ro>
Date
Apr 4, 2013, 13:18 UTC
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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Mihai Capotă <mihai@mihaic.ro> writes:
>> diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl
>> index 73d367c..de44e33 100755
>> --- a/git-cvsimport.perl
>> +++ b/git-cvsimport.perl
>> @@ -1126,12 +1126,12 @@ unless ($opt_P) {
>>  }
>>
>>  # The heuristic of repacking every 1024 commits can leave a
>> -# lot of unpacked data.  If there is more than 1MB worth of
>> +# lot of unpacked data.  If there is more than 1MiB worth of
>>  # not-packed objects, repack once more.
>>  my $line = `git count-objects`;
>> -if ($line =~ /^(\d+) objects, (\d+) kilobytes$/) {
>> -  my ($n_objects, $kb) = ($1, $2);
>> -  1024 < $kb
>> +if ($line =~ /^(\d+) objects, (\d+) KiB$/) {
>> +  my ($n_objects, $kib) = ($1, $2);
>> +  1024 < $kib
>>      and system(qw(git repack -a -d));
>>  }
>
> This hunk makes me wonder if this s/kilobytes/kib/ is a good idea in
> the first place.  This in-tree user was lucky enough to have been
> caught and adjusted, but we don't know how many out-of-tree scripts
> are broken the same way and in need of a similar treatment.

The git manual contains an explicit warning about the output of a porcelain command changing: "The interface to Porcelain commands on the other hand are subject to change in order to improve the end user experience."

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Message 7 of 21 in “count-objects: output "KiB" instead of "kilobytes"”
  1. count-objects: output "KiB" instead of "kilobytes"Mihai Capotă, Apr 2, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2013
  4. Mihai CapotăApr 3, 2013
  5. count-objects: output "KiB" instead of "kilobytes"Mihai Capotă, Apr 3, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2013
  7. Mihai CapotăApr 4, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2013
  9. Mihai CapotăApr 5, 2013
  10. count-objects doc: document use of kibibytesMihai Capotă, Apr 5, 2013
  11. Antoine PelisseApr 5, 2013
  12. 1/2 progress: create public humanize() to show sizesAntoine Pelisse, Apr 8, 2013
  13. 2/2 count-objects: add -H option to humanize sizesAntoine Pelisse, Apr 8, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2013
  15. 1/2 strbuf: create strbuf_humanize() to show byte sizesAntoine Pelisse, Apr 10, 2013
  16. 2/2 count-objects: add -H option to humanize sizesAntoine Pelisse, Apr 10, 2013
  17. Jonathan NiederApr 10, 2013
  18. Antoine PelisseApr 10, 2013
  19. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2013
  20. Antoine PelisseApr 10, 2013
  21. Eric SunshineApr 8, 2013

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