From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Pure renames/copies Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:37:53 -0800 Message-ID: <43823E31.2050500@zytor.com> References: <87hda61a80.fsf@gmail.com> <7vacfxrdao.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <438235AA.8070805@zytor.com> <7vpsotofd0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 21 22:41:24 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeJMl-00006F-Fq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:38:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750975AbVKUViU (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:38:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750978AbVKUViU (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:38:20 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:47235 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750973AbVKUViU (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:38:20 -0500 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jALLc3DH030871 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:38:05 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vpsotofd0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > > >>Any reason we can't make it take an actual decimal number, like -M1.0 or >>-M0.345? It seems odd and annoying to invent our own notation for >>floating-point numbers, especially in userspace. > > > No reason we "can't". About we "don't", inertia and nothing > else. It happened around this time. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111654149421574 > > We could in addition to take 0 <= x <= 1 decimal number and that > should be a simple patch to diff.c::parse_num(). > Okay, in that post Linus suggests that -M without an argument should be == 100% (1.0), thus avoiding having to mess up the meaning of -M100 as 0.100. It seems like a really odd thing to have -M100 mean something that's completely out of line with the rest of the meaning. -hpa