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Re: [PATCH 2] count-objects: add human-readable size option

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 14, 2008, 14:05 UTC
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Hi,
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > Marcus Griep <marcus@griep.us> wrote:
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt
> >> index 75a8da1..291bc5e 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt
> >> +++ b/builtin-count-objects.c
> > ...
> >> +void human_readable_size(char *buf, int buf_size, double size /* in bytes */)
> >
> > Hmm.  This probably should be static.  Or if it really is meant
> > to be a utility for use elsewhere in Git, moved to someplace where
> > string handling is done.  Its not strbuf related, but maybe strbuf.c
> > is a better location for this sort of library function.
> 
> Yes, with customizable precision (so that the caller can control "1.6k" vs
> "1.62k"), and perhaps cutomizable unit (so that you can use this for
> "3.6kB" and "2.6Mbps"), this kind of thing is a good candidate to be a
> library function in strbuf.c.

Or, should it ever be merged into git.git, the strbuf_vaddf() routine I wrote.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 6 of 18 in “count-objects: Add total pack size to verbose output”
  1. count-objects: Add total pack size to verbose outputMarcus Griep, Aug 13, 2008
  2. count-objects: add human-readable size optionMarcus Griep, Aug 14, 2008
  3. Shawn O. PearceAug 14, 2008
  4. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 14, 2008
  7. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
  8. Alex RiesenAug 14, 2008
  9. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
  10. Alex RiesenAug 14, 2008
  11. Pierre HabouzitAug 15, 2008
  12. Alex RiesenAug 18, 2008
  13. Johannes SixtAug 14, 2008
  14. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
  15. Petr BaudisAug 14, 2008
  16. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008
  17. Petr BaudisAug 14, 2008
  18. Marcus GriepAug 14, 2008

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