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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] diff: add --compact-summary option to complement --stat
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:53:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180119215344.GD12074@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq607xpmty.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:20:41PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >      Documentation/merge-config.txt     |  4 ++
> >      builtin/merge.c                    |  2 +
> >  A+x t/t5573-pull-verify-signatures.sh  | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >      t/t7612-merge-verify-signatures.sh | 45 +++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 132 insertions(+)
> 
> I like the concept but given that additions and mode changes are
> rare events, I am not so sure if it is worth always wasting three
> columns like the above.  Assuming that this is solely meant for
> human consumption and machine parsability is of no concern, I
> actually prefer the output format you said you've been using your
> personal fork, e.g.
> 
>  Documentation/merge-config.txt              |  4 ++
>  builtin/merge.c                             |  2 +
>  t/t5573-pull-verify-signatures.sh (new, +x) | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  t/t7612-merge-verify-signatures.sh          | 45 +++++++++++++
> 
> That is
> 
>  (1) do not change the starting column at the leftmost end, and
>  (2) do not permanently allocate the columns for "compact" summary.

I think the patch already does (2). In fact, it computes the max
compact-status size (so if you only have "A" and not "A+x", it wastes
only the one column).

I agree that (1) would save space in some cases, though IMHO it's a
little hard to notice.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2018-01-19 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-13 13:22 [PATCH/RFC] diff: add --compact-summary option to complement --stat Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-13 18:37 ` Philip Oakley
2018-01-14  9:37 ` Simon Ruderich
2018-01-14 10:24   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-18 10:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 18:57   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-01-19  0:01     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-18 21:23   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-01-19  0:06     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-18 22:48   ` Jeff King
2018-01-19  0:26     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-19 21:52       ` Jeff King
2018-01-19 21:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-19 21:53     ` Jeff King [this message]

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