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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] cat-file: add --batch-disk-sizes option
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 09:40:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v61wl0zv1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Dffc2WgtDyUS2g2gmDWG_rTxs389fHcj0ztm6pdJddjQ@mail.gmail.com> (Duy Nguyen's message of "Mon, 8 Jul 2013 20:13:18 +0700")

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> There's also syntax sharing. I don't think each command should have
> its own syntax. f-e-r already has %(objectsize). If we plan to have a
> common syntax, perhaps %(disk-size) should be %(objectsize:disk) or
> something. Adding formatting to cat-file --batch from scratch could be
> another big chunk of code (that also comes with bugs, usually) and may
> or may not be compatible with the common syntax because of some
> oversight. --batch-cols=... or --batch-disk-size would be simpler, but
> we might never be able to remove that code.

True, but cat-file being a low-level plumbing, I actually am not all
that convinced that it should even know the custom formatting.
Configurability and customizability may look always good, but that
is true only until one realizes that they come with associated cost.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-08 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-07 10:01 [RFC/PATCH 0/4] cat-file --batch-disk-sizes Jeff King
2013-07-07 10:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] zero-initialize object_info structs Jeff King
2013-07-07 17:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-07 10:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] teach sha1_object_info_extended a "disk_size" query Jeff King
2013-07-07 10:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] cat-file: add --batch-disk-sizes option Jeff King
2013-07-07 17:49   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-07 18:19     ` Jeff King
2013-07-08 11:04     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-07-08 12:00       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-08 13:13         ` Duy Nguyen
2013-07-08 13:37           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-09  2:55             ` Duy Nguyen
2013-07-09 10:32               ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-10 11:16             ` Jeff King
2013-07-08 16:40           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-07-10 11:04     ` Jeff King
2013-07-11 16:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-07 21:15   ` brian m. carlson
2013-07-10 10:57     ` Jeff King
2013-07-07 10:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindex Jeff King
2013-07-07 23:52   ` Shawn Pearce
2013-07-08  7:57     ` Jeff King
2013-07-08 15:38       ` Shawn Pearce
2013-07-08 20:50   ` Brandon Casey
2013-07-08 21:35     ` Brandon Casey
2013-07-10 10:57       ` Jeff King
2013-07-10 10:52     ` Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:34 ` [PATCHv2 00/10] cat-file formats/on-disk sizes Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:35   ` [PATCH 01/10] zero-initialize object_info structs Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:35   ` [PATCH 02/10] teach sha1_object_info_extended a "disk_size" query Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:36   ` [PATCH 03/10] t1006: modernize output comparisons Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:38   ` [PATCH 04/10] cat-file: teach --batch to stream blob objects Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:38   ` [PATCH 05/10] cat-file: refactor --batch option parsing Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:45   ` [PATCH 06/10] cat-file: add --batch-check=<format> Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:57     ` Eric Sunshine
2013-07-10 14:51     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-11 11:24       ` Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:46   ` [PATCH 07/10] cat-file: add %(objectsize:disk) format atom Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:48   ` [PATCH 08/10] cat-file: split --batch input lines on whitespace Jeff King
2013-07-10 15:29     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-11 11:36       ` Jeff King
2013-07-11 17:42         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-11 20:45         ` [PATCHv3 " Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:50   ` [PATCH 09/10] pack-revindex: use unsigned to store number of objects Jeff King
2013-07-10 11:55   ` [PATCH 10/10] pack-revindex: radix-sort the revindex Jeff King
2013-07-10 12:00     ` Jeff King
2013-07-10 13:17     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-11 11:03       ` Jeff King
2013-07-10 17:10     ` Brandon Casey
2013-07-11 11:17       ` Jeff King
2013-07-11 12:16     ` [PATCHv3 " Jeff King
2013-07-11 21:12       ` Brandon Casey

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