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Re: Pure renames/copies

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 21, 2005, 21:33 UTC
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> Any reason we can't make it take an actual decimal number, like -M1.0 or 
> -M0.345?  It seems odd and annoying to invent our own notation for 
> floating-point numbers, especially in userspace.

No reason we "can't". About we "don't", inertia and nothing else. It happened around this time.

	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111654149421574

We could in addition to take 0 <= x <= 1 decimal number and that should be a simple patch to diff.c::parse_num().

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