From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im>
To: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail•com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
git@vger•kernel.org, karthik.188@gmail•com,
sunshine@sunshineco•com, Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:13:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aOyYWQ5mU4zc1oCH@pks.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lnk4zvu5zgokd3p5lxnl2nwbqu3fi3yer753tr2f2jaknrtb3h@fcbjvvu6irtc>
On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 09:34:54AM -0500, Justin Tobler wrote:
> On 25/10/10 08:53AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 07:42:40PM -0500, Justin Tobler wrote:
> > > Thinking about this some more, a single "stats" command is indeed rather
> > > vauge. Furthermore, as Junio mentioned, there could be other aspects of
> > > a repository that we want to display stats for in the future.
> > >
> > > Since the goal of this command is to surface info about a repositories
> > > structure, may we should instead call this command `git repo structure`?
> > > Or something else along those lines that in more specific and related to
> > > goal of the command?
> >
> > Some alternatives that come to my mind:
> >
> > - inspect
> > - analyze
> > - scan
> > - survey
> > - measure
> >
> > I don't have any specific preference. What I like though is that those
> > are verbs, which makes it a bit more natural to use them.
>
> If we want the theme of this command to be the repository's
> structure/shape and have a name that matches this scope, I'm not sure
> any of the above examples would move us closer to that. Aligning the
> command name to its scope is beneficial if we forsee the potential to
> introduce additional subcommands for git-repo(1) that target other
> aspects of a repository.
Fair.
> From my perspective, the main question is: should git-repo-stats be a
> generic command that can eventual provides all sorts of different stats?
> Or should it stick to repository structure/shape information? I think
> I'm currently leaning towards the latter.
Yeah, I'm leaning towards the latter, as well.
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-13 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-23 2:56 [PATCH 0/4] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 2:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] " Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 10:52 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-23 15:10 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 15:26 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-23 15:22 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-09-23 15:55 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 2:56 ` [PATCH 2/4] builtin/repo: add object counts in stats output Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 10:52 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-23 15:19 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 15:30 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-09-23 15:56 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 2:56 ` [PATCH 3/4] builtin/repo: add keyvalue format for stats Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 10:53 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-23 15:26 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 15:39 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-09-23 15:59 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 2:57 ` [PATCH 4/4] builtin/repo: add nul " Justin Tobler
2025-09-23 10:53 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-23 15:33 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-24 4:48 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-23 15:41 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-09-23 16:02 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-24 21:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-09-24 21:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] builtin/repo: rename repo_info() to cmd_repo_info() Justin Tobler
2025-09-24 21:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] ref-filter: allow NULL filter pattern Justin Tobler
2025-09-24 21:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 5:38 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-25 13:01 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-24 21:24 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] builtin/repo: add object counts in stats output Justin Tobler
2025-09-24 21:24 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] builtin/repo: add keyvalue and nul format for stats Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 5:39 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-25 13:16 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 13:58 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-24 21:24 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] builtin/repo: add progress meter " Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 5:39 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-25 13:20 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 23:29 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 23:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] builtin/repo: rename repo_info() to cmd_repo_info() Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 23:29 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] ref-filter: allow NULL filter pattern Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 23:29 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] clang-format: exclude control macros from SpaceBeforeParens Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 23:29 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 23:51 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-09-26 1:38 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 23:29 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] builtin/repo: add object counts in stats output Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 23:29 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] builtin/repo: add keyvalue and nul format for stats Justin Tobler
2025-09-25 23:29 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] builtin/repo: add progress meter " Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 14:50 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 14:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] builtin/repo: rename repo_info() to cmd_repo_info() Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 14:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] ref-filter: allow NULL filter pattern Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 14:50 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] clang-format: exclude control macros from SpaceBeforeParens Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 15:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-27 15:51 ` Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 23:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-27 14:50 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 16:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-09 22:09 ` Justin Tobler
2025-10-10 0:42 ` Justin Tobler
2025-10-10 6:53 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-10-10 14:34 ` Justin Tobler
2025-10-13 6:13 ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2025-09-27 14:50 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] builtin/repo: add object counts in stats output Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 14:50 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] builtin/repo: add keyvalue and nul format for stats Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 14:50 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] builtin/repo: add progress meter " Justin Tobler
2025-09-27 16:33 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand Junio C Hamano
2025-10-15 21:12 ` [PATCH v5 0/6] builtin/repo: introduce structure subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-10-15 21:12 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] builtin/repo: rename repo_info() to cmd_repo_info() Justin Tobler
2025-10-15 21:12 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] ref-filter: allow NULL filter pattern Justin Tobler
2025-10-15 21:12 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] builtin/repo: introduce structure subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-10-16 10:58 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-10-21 16:04 ` Justin Tobler
2025-10-15 21:12 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] builtin/repo: add object counts in structure output Justin Tobler
2025-10-15 21:12 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] builtin/repo: add keyvalue and nul format for structure stats Justin Tobler
2025-10-15 21:12 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] builtin/repo: add progress meter " Justin Tobler
2025-10-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] builtin/repo: introduce structure subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-10-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] builtin/repo: rename repo_info() to cmd_repo_info() Justin Tobler
2025-10-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] ref-filter: allow NULL filter pattern Justin Tobler
2025-10-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] ref-filter: export ref_kind_from_refname() Justin Tobler
2025-10-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] builtin/repo: introduce structure subcommand Justin Tobler
2025-10-22 5:01 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-10-22 13:50 ` Justin Tobler
2025-10-22 20:15 ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-10-22 23:42 ` Justin Tobler
2025-10-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] builtin/repo: add object counts in structure output Justin Tobler
2025-10-21 18:26 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] builtin/repo: add keyvalue and nul format for structure stats Justin Tobler
2025-10-22 20:34 ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-10-23 0:03 ` Justin Tobler
2025-10-21 18:26 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] builtin/repo: add progress meter " Justin Tobler
2025-10-22 19:23 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] builtin/repo: introduce structure subcommand Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-10-23 0:05 ` Justin Tobler
2025-10-23 20:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-24 5:14 ` Patrick Steinhardt
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