Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] ref-filter: add objectsize:disk option

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Olga Telezhnaya <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > @@ -876,11 +882,13 @@ static void grab_common_values(struct atom_value *val, int deref, struct expand_
> >  			name++;
> >  		if (!strcmp(name, "objecttype"))
> >  			v->s = xstrdup(type_name(oi->type));
> > -		else if (!strcmp(name, "objectsize")) {
> > +		else if (!strcmp(name, "objectsize:disk")) {
> > +			v->value = oi->disk_size;
> > +			v->s = xstrfmt("%lld", (long long)oi->disk_size);
> 
> oi.disk_size is off_t; do we know "long long" 
> 
>    (1) is available widely enough (I think it is from c99)?
> 
>    (2) is sufficiently wide so that we can safely cast off_t to?
> 
>    (3) will stay to be sufficiently wide as machines get larger
>        together with standard types like off_t in the future?
> 
> I'd rather use intmax_t (as off_t is a signed integral type) so that
> we do not have to worry about these questions in the first place.

You mean something like

			v->s = xstrfmt("%"PRIdMAX, (intmax_t)oi->disk_size);


If so, I agree.

Ciao,
Dscho

P.S.: I wondered whether we have precedent for PRIdMAX, as we used to use
only PRIuMAX, but yes: JeffH's json-writer uses PRIdMAX.

> 
> > +		} else if (!strcmp(name, "objectsize")) {
> >  			v->value = oi->size;
> >  			v->s = xstrfmt("%lu", oi->size);
> 
> This is not a suggestion but is a genuine question, but I wonder if
> two years down the road somebody who meets this API for the first
> time find the asymmetry between "objectsize" and "objectsize:disk" a
> tad strange and suggest the former to have "objectsize:real" or some
> synonym.  Or we can consider "objectsize" the primary thing (hence
> needing no colon-plus-modifier to clarify what kind of size we are
> asking) and leave these two deliberatly asymmetric.  I am leaning
> towards the latter myself.
> 
> > -		}
> > -		else if (deref)
> > +		} else if (deref)
> >  			grab_objectname(name, &oi->oid, v, &used_atom[i]);
> >  	}
> >  }
> >
> > --
> > https://github.com/git/git/pull/552
>