From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:20:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Use floating point for --dirstat percentages
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In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikWhRiDaojR2NipcP0kpP49we5iUQ@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> So instead of actually using floating point, just parsing a single
> digit worth of fractional percent would be beautiful. IOW, being able
> to say
>
>   --dirstat=1.5
>
> to give a 1.5% cut-off point would be really nice - but then
> internally just saying "15 permille" and using integers all the way?

Makes perfect sense to me.