Re: [PATCH v2] rev-list --disk-usage

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:38:58PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 08:31:08AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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But in practice, we've found this kind of naive --disk-usage useful for
answering questions like:

[...]

I kind of feel sad to have a nice write-up like this only in the
list archive.  Is there a section in our documentation set to keep
collection of such a real-life use cases?  Perhaps the examples
section of manpages is the closest thing, but it looks a bit too
narrowly scoped for the example section of "rev-list" manpage.

Agreed on both counts. If this gets put into a release, I suspect Taylor
would cover it in a release blog post. That is not quite the same thing
as having it in the documentation, but it may provide more search engine
boost than the list archive. I dunno.

Yeah, this is the perfect sort of thing for those blog posts.

But it makes sense to include some of these examples in our own
documentation here, too. git-rev-list(1) doesn't have an EXAMPLES
section, but maybe it should.

-Peff

Thanks,
Taylor