Branko Čibej wrote on Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:51 +0100:
> It's just a damn shame that the '-h' flag is already taken, otherwise we
> could be like 'df' and use -h for base-2 units and -H for base-10 units,
> whereas now it's -H for base-2 units ... if anyone has any bright ideas
> for fixing this omission, please say so.
We've traditionally been careful about not using up the one-letter-option
space. Are we sure that this merits *two* one-letter option?
> I'd though about adding a --base-10 flag, so '-H' is base-2 units and
> '-H --base-10' would use base-10 units. I do think that the default
> should be base-2, because users are probably more used to thinking that
> way. Well, at least programmers are, and they are, after all, the main
> users of version control.
I'm not a fan of having one flag modify another flag's meaning. I'd prefer
--base=2
--base=10
(we needn't support other values (except perhaps --base=1 for the 1.11
behaviour))
I suppose we could then have --human-readable as "currently, an alias to
--base=10", with an option to extend it --- like 'diff --patch-compatible'.
> Ah, right: r1847422 fixes a silly bug in the number scaling, but more
> importantly it changes the number formatting to use the locale-specific
> decimal separator, to make it consistent with the locale-specific date
> abbreviation:
I'm just glad there's no such thing as locale-specific SI prefixes.
(What's a kilobyte in imperial?)
> $ env LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" svn ls -vH
> 1847281 stsp Nov 23 16:04 ./
> 1716820 rhuijben 175B Nov 27 2015 .editorconfig
> 1659509 rhuijben 3,0K Feb 13 2015 .ycm_extra_conf.py <<<******!
> 915036 mf 94B Feb 22 2010 BUGS
> 1846422 julianfoad 347K Nov 12 15:26 CHANGES
> 1833511 julianfoad 14K Giu 14 16:40 COMMITTERS
> 1829224 astieger 55K Apr 15 2018 INSTALL
> 1801940 kotkov 22K Lug 14 2017 LICENSE
> 1845942 brane 42K Nov 06 18:37 Makefile.in
