From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Deltifying? (was [PATCH 3/6] pack-objects: no delta possible...)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:28:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710162224590.19446@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071017021555.GP13801@spearce.org>
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > start_progress(&progress_state, "Deltifying objects",
>
> Totally unrelated to this patch but yesterday a coworker called the
> Grammar Police on me because Git said "Deltifying objects" in their
> console window during a fetch or push operation. I told them it was
> perfectly valid, they disagreed. I got free coffee out of the deal.
Whatever is proper English I don't mind, as long as it is short, like a
single word to describe the action + "objects".
> But still, it bothers some users that we use perhaps less than
> commonly accepted English in an important tool's output. Seeing it
> in your context just reminded me of that discussion yesterday.
With Git's growing user base, this is becoming more and more common
though. ;-)
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-17 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-17 1:55 [PATCH 0/6] miscelaneous stuff Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 1:55 ` [PATCH 1/6] more compact progress display Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 1:55 ` [PATCH 2/6] cope with multiple line breaks within sideband progress messages Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 1:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] pack-objects: no delta possible with only one object in the list Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 1:55 ` [PATCH 4/6] pack-objects.c: fix some global variable abuse and memory leaks Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 1:55 ` [PATCH 5/6] fix const issues with some functions Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 1:55 ` [PATCH 6/6] fix for more minor memory leaks Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 2:15 ` Deltifying? (was [PATCH 3/6] pack-objects: no delta possible...) Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-17 2:28 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-10-17 2:11 ` [PATCH 1/6] more compact progress display Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-17 2:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 8:20 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-17 20:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-18 4:58 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-18 8:34 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-17 6:34 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-17 6:37 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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