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Re: [PATCH 2/3] Move unsigned long option parsing out of pack-objects.c

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Jun 19, 2015, 18:39 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Except for the minor nits above, I think this is a good change.

Oh, I forgot to mention one thing. I am not sure if this should be called ULONG. "unsigned long"-ness is not the most important part of this thing from the end-user's point of view, and also from the point of view of the programmer who supports end-users by using this new feature.

It is "unlike OPT_INTEGER, the user can specify it as a human readble scaled quantity" that is the reason to use this new thing. I think we discussed to introduce OPT_HUMINT (HUM stands for HUMAN, obviously) or some name like that a few years ago to do exactly this, but that is not a great name, either.

I was tempted to suggest a name that has "size" in it, but because places that we may conceivably want to use it in the future would be to specify:

 - sizes, e.g. "split the packfiles into 4.3G chunks".
 - counts, e.g. "show me the most recent 2k commits".
 - bandwidth, e.g. "limit the transfer to consume at most 2M bps".
which is not limited to size, it is not a very good idea, either.
OPT_SCALED_ULONG(), or something with "scaled" in its name, perhaps?
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Message 8 of 51 in “Improvements to parse-options and a new filter-objects command”
  1. Charles BaileyJun 19, 2015
  2. 1/3 Correct test-parse-options to handle negative intsCharles Bailey, Jun 19, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2015
  4. 2/3 Move unsigned long option parsing out of pack-objects.cCharles Bailey, Jun 19, 2015
  5. Remi Galan AlfonsoJun 19, 2015
  6. Charles BaileyJun 19, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2015
  9. Jakub NarębskiJun 20, 2015
  10. Jakub NarębskiJun 19, 2015
  11. Charles BaileyJun 20, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2015
  13. 3/3 Add filter-objects commandCharles Bailey, Jun 19, 2015
  14. Jeff KingJun 19, 2015
  15. Charles BaileyJun 19, 2015
  16. Jeff KingJun 19, 2015
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2015
  18. John KeepingJun 19, 2015
  19. Charles BaileyJun 19, 2015
  20. Improvements to integer option parsingCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  21. 1/2 Correct test-parse-options to handle negative intsCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  22. 2/2 Move unsigned long option parsing out of pack-objects.cCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  23. Charles BaileyJun 21, 2015
  24. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015
  26. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015
  27. Charles BaileyJun 22, 2015
  28. Fast enumeration of objectsCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  29. Add list-all-objects commandCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  30. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  31. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  32. 1/7 for_each_packed_object: automatically open pack indexJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  33. 2/7 cat-file: minor style fix in options listJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  34. 3/7 cat-file: move batch_options definition to top of fileJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  35. 4/7 cat-file: add --buffer optionJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  36. 5/7 cat-file: stop returning value from batch_one_objectJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  37. 6/7 cat-file: split batch_one_object into two stagesJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  38. 7/7 cat-file: add --batch-all-objects optionJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  39. Eric SunshineJun 26, 2015
  40. Jeff KingJun 26, 2015
  41. 8/7 cat-file: sort and de-dup output of --batch-all-objectsJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  42. Charles BaileyJun 22, 2015
  43. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  44. Charles BaileyJun 22, 2015
  45. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015
  46. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  47. Charles BaileyJun 22, 2015
  48. Duy NguyenJun 22, 2015
  49. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  50. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  51. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015

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