Re: [PATCH v2] rev-list --disk-usage
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Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
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- 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