Re: [PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 19, 2005, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy8abx8ay.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505191456040.20274@localhost.localdomain>

>>>>> "NP" == Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

NP> Yes, but 0-9 is putting a bound on the accuracy. What if someone wants NP> not more than 2% difference?

That statement is correct, but I think you are looking at it from a developer perspective.

I suspect people would not want to pay the price of having always to type many digits for the benefit of being able to specify differences of 2% and 5%. Would you also complain gzip only lets you say -1 .. -9 and not -1.63 ;-)?

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