From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:48:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505191643030.20274@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7vy8abx8ay.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >>>>> "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 ;-)?

Are we talking about git plumbing or porcelain here?


Nicolas