From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 06:42:47 GMT
Subject: [suggestion] support non-negative float number in git-repack --max-pack-size
Message-ID: <776cb2f9-5fef-4486-5aef-f3ee62fcda7e@gmail.com>

Hi,

I would like to create packfiles with charm-numbered size (that is for 
example use 49.99M instead of 50M) with git-repack:

$ git repack --max-pack-size=49.99M -a -d

But Git didn't support it:

> error: option `max-pack-size' expects a non-negative integer value with an optional k/m/g suffix

The workaround was scaling down to kibibytes:

$ git repack --max-pack-size=52418K -a -d

But the workaround is a rather convoluted to me, because I must convert 
mebibytes (MiB) to kibibytes (KiB). I had to multiply the desired 
packfile size by 1024, as opposed to by 1000 in familiar size notation 
(kilobytes [KB] and megabytes [MB]).

It would be nice if non-negative floating-point number can be allowed in 
--max-pack-size option, so that many users don't have to scale down size 
notation like above.

PS: charm numbers are most often used in pricing, because it's almost 
used everywhere (part of psychological pricing).

Thanks.

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