From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20071103204000.GA24959@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: Mike Hommey , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" , Jeff King To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 03 23:47:37 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 1IoRmC-0005HD-8m for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:47:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755215AbXKCWrW (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 18:47:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754280AbXKCWrW (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 18:47:22 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:42464 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752939AbXKCWrV (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 18:47:21 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id lA3Mjp7V027409 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:45:52 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id lA3Mjlaf004779; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:45:47 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.733 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED,PATCH_SUBJECT_OSDL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > 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. Actually, they just lost even that in a lawsuit (yeah, they "settled"). The fact is, 1MB = 1024kB = 1048576 bytes. Anybody who claims anything else is a lying piece of pondscum, trying to just fool people into paying more for less. Which is why you should *not* use MiB and KiB - it only validates the pondscum. Linus