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Re: [PATCH v2] rev-list --disk-usage

From
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date
Feb 10, 2021, 23:15 UTC
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:38:58PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 08:31:08AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> >
> > > But in practice, we've found this kind of naive --disk-usage useful for
> > > answering questions like:
> > [...]
> >
> > I kind of feel sad to have a nice write-up like this only in the
> > list archive.  Is there a section in our documentation set to keep
> > collection of such a real-life use cases?  Perhaps the examples
> > section of manpages is the closest thing, but it looks a bit too
> > narrowly scoped for the example section of "rev-list" manpage.
>
> Agreed on both counts. If this gets put into a release, I suspect Taylor
> would cover it in a release blog post. That is not quite the same thing
> as having it in the documentation, but it may provide more search engine
> boost than the list archive. I dunno.
Yeah, this is the perfect sort of thing for those blog posts.

But it makes sense to include some of these examples in our own documentation here, too. git-rev-list(1) doesn't have an EXAMPLES section, but maybe it should.

> -Peff

Thanks, Taylor

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Message 23 of 30 in “rev-list --disk-usage”
  1. 0/2 rev-list --disk-usageJeff King, Jan 27, 2021
  2. 1/2 t: add --no-tag option to test_commitJeff King, Jan 27, 2021
  3. Taylor BlauJan 27, 2021
  4. 2/2 rev-list: add --disk-usage option for calculating disk usageJeff King, Jan 27, 2021
  5. Taylor BlauJan 27, 2021
  6. Jeff KingJan 27, 2021
  7. Eric SunshineJan 27, 2021
  8. Jeff KingJan 27, 2021
  9. Kyle MeyerJan 27, 2021
  10. Jeff KingJan 27, 2021
  11. Taylor BlauJan 27, 2021
  12. rev-list --disk-usageJeff King, Feb 9, 2021
  13. 1/2 t: add --no-tag option to test_commitJeff King, Feb 9, 2021
  14. 2/2 rev-list: add --disk-usage option for calculating disk usageJeff King, Feb 9, 2021
  15. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2021
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2021
  17. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2021
  18. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2021
  19. Taylor BlauFeb 10, 2021
  20. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2021
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2021
  22. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2021
  23. Taylor BlauFeb 10, 2021
  24. Jeff KingFeb 11, 2021
  25. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 11, 2021
  26. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2021
  27. 0/2 rev-list --disk-usage example docsJeff King, Feb 17, 2021
  28. 1/2 docs/rev-list: add an examples sectionJeff King, Feb 17, 2021
  29. 2/2 docs/rev-list: add some examples of --disk-usageJeff King, Feb 17, 2021
  30. Taylor BlauFeb 17, 2021

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