Re: [PATCH] Add an option to git-ls-tree to display also the size of object

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

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Junio C Hamano wrote:

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  Also I suspect that having to show the size of a tree object,
  expressed in terms of the canonical representation, might
  force packv4 aware ls-tree to convert its traversal efficient
  representation to the canonical one only to get its size.

It still will be accessible, but perhaps it would be less efficient
with v4 pack. It is I think acceptable that -l needs more CPU (and I/O) 
time...

Shawn answered this better than I could.  I am moderately
negative on the size of tree objects part.

But modulo these details, I agree that being able to get the
size of each blob would be useful.

We can always return ' ', '-', or '0' as size for tree entries.
I wonder what to do about commits/gitlinks/subprojects...

The same "the size of this type of object is not given", I would
say.