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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes.
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:23:48 -0800
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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>> Why?  Are you allowing "1024 k"?  Do we want to?
>
> Yes.  Why not?

Stricter input checking.  Allowing extra things later is far
easier than later finding problems with a looser way we started
from and having to tighten it.