On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> When using -M with a number to act as a threshold for declaring >> a change as being a rename, I found a... quirk. Any 2-digit >> number after the M will work,... > > That is not 2-digit number. > > A few historical trivia may help. > > Originally we said "you can use -M2 to choose 2/10" (like "gzip" > taking compression levels between "-0" to "-9"). Then Linus came up > with a clever idea to let people specify arbitrary precision by > letting you say "-M25" to mean 25/100 and "-M254" to mean 254/1000. > > Read the numbers without per-cent as if it has decimal point before > it (i.e. -M005 is talking about 0.005 which is 0.5%). Full hundred > per-cent has to be spelled with per-cent sign for obvious reasons > with this scheme but that cannot be avoided. It is a special case. Oh nice. Makes sense; thanks! I submitted a patch to diff-options.txt (separately). regards sitaram -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html