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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pure renames/copies
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:33:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vpsotofd0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438235AA.8070805@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:01:30 -0800")

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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().

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-21 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-21 12:01 Pure renames/copies Santi Béjar
2005-11-21 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 19:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-21 19:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-21 21:01     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-21 21:33       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-11-21 21:37         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-21 22:00           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-21 22:10             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-21 22:17               ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-22  9:03     ` Santi Bejar

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