From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:14:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output
Message-ID: <200711040314.36668.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071104014930.GA27392@old.davidb.org>

söndag 04 november 2007 skrev David Brown:
> 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".

They may have used the term "unformatted" capacity.

-- robin