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Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Nov 3, 2007, 21:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20071103210321.GA25685@glandium.org>
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:50:54PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> [ heh, I knew someone would say something ]
> 
> Yes, to me, 1MB is 1024 KB.  Always been, until those idiotic hard disk 
> manufacturers decided to redefine the common interpretation of what 
> everyone else used to consider what a MB is just to boost their 
> marketing claims.

How many grams in a kilogram ? How many meters in a kilometer ? How many joule in a kilojoule ? ... How many bytes in a kilobyte ? Oh wait...

And you know what ? It's not only a matter of hard disk manufacturers.

How fast is gigabit ethernet ? Yep, 1000000000 bits/s How big would people say a 44000000 bytes file is ? 44MB or 42MB ? And my favourite: How many bytes in a 1.44MB floppy disk ? 1474560, that is, 1.44 * 1024000.

Those who made this big mess are the ones who decided a KB was 1024 bytes, not the others.

Mike
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  1. git-fetch: more terse fetch outputNicolas Pitre, Nov 3, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2007
  3. Linus TorvaldsNov 3, 2007
  4. Nicolas PitreNov 3, 2007
  5. Mike HommeyNov 3, 2007
  6. Nicolas PitreNov 3, 2007
  7. Mike HommeyNov 3, 2007
  8. Pierre HabouzitNov 3, 2007
  9. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2007
  10. Linus TorvaldsNov 3, 2007
  11. Mike HommeyNov 3, 2007
  12. Johannes SchindelinNov 4, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2007
  14. David BrownNov 4, 2007
  15. Robin RosenbergNov 4, 2007
  16. Linus TorvaldsNov 3, 2007
  17. Steffen ProhaskaNov 4, 2007
  18. Jeff KingNov 4, 2007
  19. Johannes SchindelinNov 4, 2007
  20. Pierre HabouzitNov 4, 2007

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