From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:26:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes.
Message-ID: <20061231062618.GD6106@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsa0inwr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "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.