bug? 'git log -M100' is different from 'git log -M100%'

2012-12-17 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
Hi, 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, but if the number is 100, it will require a % to be appended to be effective. Here's a transcript that will demonstrate the problem when r

Re: bug? 'git log -M100' is different from 'git log -M100%'

2012-12-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
Sitaram Chamarty 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 choo

Re: bug? 'git log -M100' is different from 'git log -M100%'

2012-12-17 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sitaram Chamarty 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 hist