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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes.

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Dec 31, 2006, 06:26 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
Good point.  I'm currently writing tests for this btw.
-- 
Shawn.
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