From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:33:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Pure renames/copies
Message-ID: <7vpsotofd0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <438235AA.8070805@zytor.com>

"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().