From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:48:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711031546110.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071103210321.GA25685@glandium.org>



On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> 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...

How many 'u's in the word "colour"?

Oh, wait - it depends on context, doesn't it?

kB is 1024 bytes. The fact that "k" means something else in other contexts 
is simply irrelevant.

			Linus