From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:33:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes.
Message-ID: <7vodpkhjzq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061231020218.GA5366@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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?