From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:00:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Pure renames/copies
Message-ID: <7vd5ktoe52.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <43823E31.2050500@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Okay, in that post Linus suggests that -M without an argument should be 
> == 100% (1.0), thus avoiding having to mess up the meaning of -M100 as 
> 0.100.  It seems like a really odd thing to have -M100 mean something 
> that's completely out of line with the rest of the meaning.

True, but it might be too late to change that; I suspect people
expect -M to do a bit more than pure renames by now.