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Show HN: How Many Pages? – GitHub Repo-to-8.5"X11" count

• ahcarpenter 9y ago
  'Using a modified version of GitHub's Linguist and some good, old-fashioned guesstimation to estimate the number of 8.5"x11" pages it would take to print out a repo'
• gus_massa 9y ago
  You should add a few well known examples to make it more interesting at firs sight. Like a small competition, if that makes sense. I also tried to use directly the repository address instead of the github user, but I got an error. I know the text says explicitly "search by username" but I like to ignore the documentation and search directly https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/torvalds/linux (sorry if it's too big) (consider to add some caching) Edit: 20.392.848 pages!
  • ahcarpenter 9y ago
    hi gus_massa! thanks a ton for the feedback! great idea, can most def do. and had most def had the thought of supported repo urls as well--thank you! and yes, could most def cache data for some of the more popular repos! thanks a ton for your feedback!
• err4nt 9y ago
  The estimates this thing gives me are insanely over-enthusiastic. I have a few teeny tiny repositories and only one of mine came out under 100 pages: https://github.com/tomhodgins/quark https://github.com/tomhodgins/quark If you printed each file to one page, allowing a couple files to span 2 pages, that adds up to 8. I can't imagine a way to print this repository that would need 10x the amount of pages!
  • ahcarpenter 9y ago
    thanks a ton err4nt! had actually gone back and noticed an oversight to where I had left out a divisor! Current formula is: LOC (Based on Linguist's default values) / 64 (which seemed to be about the num of lines that had shown up when opening a given file in print dialog) With the change, your back at 1 for that repo ;).