Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Nov 3, 2007, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711031645350.21255@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071103204000.GA24959@glandium.org>

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:

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> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:30:27PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Receiving objects: 100% (5439/5439), 1.60 MiB | 636 KiB/s, done.
> > > 
> > > I mostly like this, but can we please just use "MB/kB" instead of 
> > > "MiB/KiB"?
> > > 
> > > I hope it was some kind of joke on crazy EU bureaucrats that just wasn't 
> > > caught in time.
> > 
> > I don't care either ways.  In fact my own preference is for MB/kB, but 
> > if I had used that first I'm sure someone else would have asked for the 
> > purist notations.
> 
> As far as you don't claim 1MB is 1024KB, it's okay.

[ heh, I knew someone would say something ]

Yes, to me, 1MB is 1024 KB. Always been, until those idiotic hard disk manufacturers decided to redefine the common interpretation of what everyone else used to consider what a MB is just to boost their marketing claims.

Nicolas