Avoiding really long reports about grunt-compare-size

[gibson042]

I'll leave this open to see what we can do about sorting, but in the meantime you'll want grunt compare_size:prune:master:1.x-master, which is already working.

[rwaldron]

@gibson042 what do you think about having a grunt compare_size:minimal that jQuery can use for the watch task? Something that only does a comparison against master, but doesn't display the numbers from master...

Instead of:

Running "compare_size:files" (compare_size) task
   raw     gz Sizes                                                            
240615  71240 dist/jquery.js                                                   
 83018  29411 dist/jquery.min.js                                               

   raw     gz Compared to last run                                             
     =      = dist/jquery.js                                                   
     =      = dist/jquery.min.js

Something like...

...where the diff is against master.

@dmethvin noted that it would still be nice to have a way to specify the one branch to compare to...

possibly via command?

grunt compare_size:minimal:vs:1.x-master

This is all just for brainstorming

[gibson042]

This is actually pretty easy if we can restrict the scope to a single file. @dmethvin, would this suit your purposes?

Running compare_size:file:dist/jquery.min.js:1.x-master:master
   raw     gz
 82971  29391 dist/jquery.min.js
-10202  -3364 1.x-master @ 039d9eec4c44214415d59e598b94826476271d15
   +19    +52 master @ a120bbbfae81daccf801fcf8deb0bc77d865e27f

[rwaldron]

Can I make one nit? The sha is sort of crowding the output, would it be ok to format it like this:

Running compare_size:file:dist/jquery.min.js:1.x-master:master
      raw     gz
    82971  29391 dist/jquery.min.js
   -10202  -3364 1.x-master         @ 039d9eec4c44214415d59e598b94826476271d15
      +19    +52 master             @ a120bbbfae81daccf801fcf8deb0bc77d865e27f

If that's an unnecessary pain in the ass, then don't worry about it :)

[dmethvin]

I like that better as well, or could the sha be abbreviated?

[dmethvin]

Also, even if you add "last run" or the last few branches to that list, it's a lot more compact than what we have now. So it's a big 👍 from me.

[gibson042]

Single file comparison example (double colon is required so the file isn't misinterpreted as a multiTask target):

$ grunt compare_size::dist/jquery.min.js
Running "compare_size:files:dist/jquery.min.js" (compare_size) task
   raw     gz                                                                  
 82971  29391 dist/jquery.min.js                                               
     =      = master @ 0afc92bd73a61a0279a419647458e6ed89638ae0                
-10244  -3354 1.x-master @ fdaf2146adae861ed3c3a42f0044e589e9d86afd            
     =      = last run                                                         

Done, without errors.