From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 03:14:34 +0100 Message-ID: <200711040314.36668.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> References: <7v1wb6yg8d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071104014930.GA27392@old.davidb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , Mike Hommey , Linus Torvalds , Nicolas Pitre , git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" , Jeff King To: David Brown X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 04 03:12:55 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 1IoUyr-0007GI-Nj for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:12:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757121AbXKDCMe convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:12:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756930AbXKDCMe (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:12:34 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:16198 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756824AbXKDCMd (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:12:33 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B8380265C; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 03:03:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28910-04; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 03:03:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.9.0.3] (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F047800782; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 03:03:32 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: <20071104014930.GA27392@old.davidb.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: s=F6ndag 04 november 2007 skrev David Brown: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 06:03:14PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >=20 > >I wonder if 700MB CD-ROM and 4.7GB DVD-R are also in decimal > >bytes. I am too lazy to check ;-) >=20 > Of course. A certain magneto optical manufacturer created a 605MB dr= ive, > which they marked as 640MB, trying to make it sound like it had the s= ame > capacity as a CD. Even with 1,000 bytes 634,388,480 is quite a stret= ch to > call 640MB. I never found the footnote "____ defines megabyte to be = 991232 > bytes". They may have used the term "unformatted" capacity. -- robin