From: Denton Liu Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:41:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] format-patch: allow a non-integral version numbers Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi Eric, On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:27:25PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote: > I'm not outright opposed to supporting non-numeric, non-integer > reroll-counts, but I also don't see a big need for it. As mentioned > earlier, Denton is the only person I recall who sends fractional > re-rolls, so it's not obvious that there is a big advantage to adding > such support and complicating the code just for one person. Although it is quite rare, I'm definitely not the only one who's done it. A cursory search on the list reveals a few examples from people other than me: * https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180308224458.5730-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com/ * https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190706162114.21169-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com/ * https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180225134015.26964-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com/ * https://lore.kernel.org/git/1435350166-7122-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr/ * https://lore.kernel.org/git/574DED66.6050008@web.de/