Re: [PATCH 3/3] diff --stat: sometimes use non-linear scaling.

> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > Your argument of saying to yourself "if line_width cannot fit max + len 
> > > then we do this" has no relevance at all.  I can say "if max + len is too 
> > > big for line_width we do this" just the same.
> > 
> > Actually that is exactly my point.  "Just the same".  There is
> > no reason to choose one way or the other from purely logical or
> > mathematical point of view.
> > 
> 
> Nothing about this is "mathematical" at all and I never claimed it was.  
> But there _is_ a reason to choose one way over the other and that is 
> because the MAJORITY of programmers do it one way and YOU do it another 
> way.  Why is it so hard to write all the code in the same style so that 
> there is as little variation in the code as possible?