Show lines in SI format

[rbtcollins]

I would really like to be able to see the counts in SI format rather than 123456789 which is not that easy to parse just by glancing at it.

[boyter]

I have looked into this, and the problem comes from localization. Relevant issues is #335

The other issue being fitting it into the space allocated. Although that's less of an issue for smaller repositories.

[rbtcollins]

Thanks! The localisation aspect of the numbers doesn't personally concern me. The space issue isn't an issue with SI - which is what I'd like to see most of all - as they will be strictly less space to print :)

[boyter]

Ah of course SI units. Not sure how you would expect that to look. Possible to see a mockup for how you would expect it?

There is SI units on the megabytes calculation (although this is also configurable if you check the help.)

[rbtcollins]

SAS                          1        68       14         0       54          0
Zsh                          1         5        1         1        3          0
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Total                     358K      114M       8M       13M      92M         5M

Thats taken from the end of an scc output at work, with just a straight conversion from the output to SI - dimensionless units. Adding Loc / B / and other dimensions might be interesting, but not needed to solve the problem I had interpreting things.

[boyter]

Ah so you see it being mostly for the totals. That makes a lot more sense to me now.

[rbtcollins]

I think it would be surprising to see e.g.

....
Zsh                      100001         5        1         1        3          0
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Total                     358M      114M       8M       13M      92M         5M

rather than

Zsh                        100M         5        1         1        3          0
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Total                     358M      114M       8M       13M      92M         5M

but ultimately as long as the totals are in SI it would solve my problem