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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-08-22 12:17:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-08-22 12:17:17 -0400 |
| commit | ee4e6549b690f91dcf70c152d143faa9e1216726 (patch) | |
| tree | 3760339cabd7b1b22678710a53e8b41b5c3b2511 | |
| parent | 0768ec19e2484fc7dbc4d0fd6502f7934018ee09 (diff) | |
reassign bug from git-annex to current world at large
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/inconsistent_use_of_SI_prefixes.mdwn | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/inconsistent_use_of_SI_prefixes.mdwn b/doc/bugs/inconsistent_use_of_SI_prefixes.mdwn index 97073d174..cf0a2d8f1 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/inconsistent_use_of_SI_prefixes.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/inconsistent_use_of_SI_prefixes.mdwn @@ -36,3 +36,20 @@ Notice `mebibytes` and `gigabytes`. It is unclear whether those are gigabytes (1 ### Please provide any additional information below. nil. + +> git-annex consistently uses the powers of ten units +> for disk storage sizes. Its "gigabyte" is the SI gigabyte. +> +> It uses the absurdly named units for powers of 2 for memory sizes, +> in the few places it deals with memory (probably only the above bloom +> filter size number). +> +> AFAIK I am complying with all relevant standards and best practices. +> Even though I consider them rather dumb, as is clear if you +> [read the opionated source code I wrote to handle this](). +> +> If git-annex used "gigabyte", the numbers it reports for disk size +> would not match the numbers disk vendors and most tools use. +> +> [[bug_is_in_world_not_in_git-annex|done]] --[[Joey]] + |