From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 00:31:44 +0100 Organization: glandium.org Message-ID: <20071103233144.GA16734@glandium.org> References: <20071103204000.GA24959@glandium.org> <20071103210321.GA25685@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" , Jeff King To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 04 00:34:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IoSVl-0006jT-OD for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:34:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756188AbXKCXe2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:34:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756676AbXKCXe2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:34:28 -0400 Received: from vawad.err.no ([85.19.200.177]:51778 "EHLO vawad.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755213AbXKCXe1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:34:27 -0400 Received: from aputeaux-153-1-38-67.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr ([82.124.130.67] helo=namakemono.glandium.org) by vawad.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IoSV0-0006Th-Gd; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:34:04 +0100 Received: from mh by namakemono.glandium.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IoSSu-0004OF-Bp; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:31:44 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Spam-Status: (score 5.5): Status=Yes hits=5.5 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL,SPF_SOFTFAIL version=3.1.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 03:48:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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. What about the fact that "kB" means different things depending whether it's used for bandwidth or memory capacity ? Does your brain have base 2 hard-coded so that you instantly know 50000000 bytes are 47.68MB ? Are people unable to do so pondscum ? Mike