From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:49:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output
Message-ID: <20071104014930.GA27392@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wb6yg8d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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