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

[Thomas Keller]

Thomas Moschny schrieb:
> 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.

For me its not only useful for diffs to know the filesize of a file, but 
also for the user as the VCS pretty much "feels" more like a filestore 
for him, since a file's size is exposed as one of the main metadata in 
pretty much every other filestore. In the end maybe this helps even to 
get a FUSE-based filesystem driver working with monotone, who knows =)

Thomas.

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