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

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On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:

> 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
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