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reassign bug from git-annex to current world at large

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Joey Hess 2013-08-22 12:17:17 -04:00
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@ -36,3 +36,20 @@ Notice `mebibytes` and `gigabytes`. It is unclear whether those are gigabytes (1
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nil. 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]]