Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output
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David Brown <git@davidb.org>
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- Nov 4, 2007, 01:49 UTC
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 06:03:14PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>I wonder if 700MB CD-ROM and 4.7GB DVD-R are also in decimal >bytes. I am too lazy to check ;-)
Of course. A certain magneto optical manufacturer created a 605MB drive, which they marked as 640MB, trying to make it sound like it had the same capacity as a CD. Even with 1,000 bytes 634,388,480 is quite a stretch to call 640MB. I never found the footnote "____ defines megabyte to be 991232 bytes".
Dave