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

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Dec 31, 2006, 02:33 UTC
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> Sometimes its necessary to supply a value as a power of two in a
> configuration parameter.  In this case the user may want to use
> the standard suffixes such as K, KB, KiB, etc. to indicate that
> the numerical value should be multiplied by a constant base before
> being used.

If you are really going to do this, I think we would need something similar to --bool to repo-config command.

Also can we fix the definition of core.packedGitWindowSize to be independent of the page size on a particular platform?

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