Re: [suggestion] support non-negative float number in git-repack --max-pack-size

> On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:42:47PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>
>> I would like to create packfiles with charm-numbered size (that is for
>> example use 49.99M instead of 50M) with git-repack:
>> 
>> $ git repack --max-pack-size=49.99M -a -d
>
> The parser for numbers with units is shared by many options and config
> variables. In general, I'm not really opposed to allowing floating point
> values which get rounded to the nearest byte for any of them. So no
> objection for the general feature if somebody wants to implement it.
>
> But I would note that --max-pack-size is almost never a good idea in
> general. I don't know what you think it's accomplishing, but it is
> probably making your repository larger than it needs to be, as well as
> less performant.