--depth overrides default for --number-of-lines

[asomers]

By default, dust chooses a good value for --number-of-lines. But if I also use --depth, then dust acts as though --number-of-lines is unlimited, and prints everything. Shouldn't it still use a reasonable number?

FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT amd64, Dust 0.8.1.

[bootandy]

I decided that using--depthmeant the user wanted to go see everything to that level.

If --depth assumed the default number of lines of output it could lead to strange behaviour.

• If you choose --depth=1 and there is one directory and two files. Should it only show 3 entries or should it open the directory and go into lower depths too?

• If you select depth=3 and all the big files are at depth=1 then does it only show the big files at depth=1 and not go down to show you the directory structure of the nested directories?

I wrestled with the above ideas and thought that if you want a correct --number-of-lines you probably don't want to use --depth at all. Just run dust normally.

[asomers]

Fair enough. In my case, all of the big files are many levels down, but I only want to see the size of directories at the depth I specify. For that case, --number-of-lines makes sense.

[bootandy]

you can run "dust dir1 dir2 dir3" and it will do one run on those 3 directories.