Subject: bug#16922: df --si -h should emit a warning

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:36:24 +0000

On 03/03/2014 04:55 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> +  -h, --human-readable  print abbreviated sizes in powers of 1024 (e.g. %s)\n\
>> +  -H, --si              print abbreviated sizes in powers of 1000 (e.g. %s)\n\
> 
> Thanks for looking into improving this.  Please put commas after "e.g.".  Also, I suggest removing "abbreviated", and simplifying the translator's job by simply interpolating the human.  E.g.:
> 
> -h, --human-readable  print sizes in powers of 1024 (e.g., 1023M)\n\
> -H, --si              print sizes in powers of 1000 (e.g., 1.1G)\n\

Better thanks.
I've rolled that into my local patch.

thanks,
Pádraig.