From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:23:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes.
Message-ID: <7vpsa0inwr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061231061232.GC6106@spearce.org>

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

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.