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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, 06:23 UTC
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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>> Why?  Are you allowing "1024 k"?  Do we want to?
>
> Yes.  Why not?

Stricter input checking. Allowing extra things later is far easier than later finding problems with a looser way we started from and having to tighten it.

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