Branko Čibej wrote on Mon, 26 Nov 2018 06:13 +0100: > On 26.11.2018 05:58, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >>> (we needn't support other values (except perhaps --base=1 for the 1.11 > >>> behaviour)) > >> ?:\ Which behaviour? > > The default behaviour: printing the filesize as an integer (possibly with > > thousands separator). Mathematically, base-2 means the printed value N > > stands for N * 2**foo, so the 1.11 behaviour is equivalent to --unit-base=1. > > Ah! this is "1.11" the version number, not "1.11" some magical base-1 > number format. For a moment I was worried about having to print > thousands of 1's. :)
Yes, the version number :-D > > It might be clearer to just call it --unit-base=none. > > But do we really need to support this option value explicitly? The > absence of the option already asserts the default behaviour. I was thinking of --accept, where one can do 'svn merge --accept=tf --accept=postpone'; but that's not possible with, say, -v, where one can't do 'svn ls -v --no-v'. *shrug* Daniel
