Re: [Monotone-devel] Extensions to automation, again

[Thomas Moschny]

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 22:50 Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> But, if we're going to commit the design and maintainence effort to
> providing a fast get_file_size command going forward, then we need to
> make sure that there are real use cases to justify that.  I'm not
> totally convinced yet

At least TracMonotone could benefit from such a function, because it displays 
file listings containing file sizes. Currently it needs to fetch some files 
just for determining their size, without ever delivering those file's 
contents to the user.

Thomas M.