From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:44:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <435F4B05.4010702@op5.se> Hi, On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > I'd be more worried about the fact that the kilobytes count is way off > as it is. du (at least from coreutils-5.2.1) rounds up to nearest > kilobyte *for each file* when printing kb-count. The rationale behind this: You want to know how much space it takes on your hard disk. Remember, git-count-objects should give you a clue whether to repack or not. Actually, "du -k" in my tests rounds up to nearest block size or kilobytes (whichever is greater): For example, "du -k" on a very small file (53 bytes) says "1" on an ext2fs yields "1", "4" on hfs, and 32 on a big FAT32. Of course, you may get different values, since the block sizes sometimes depend on the total size of the media. Hth, Dscho