From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Deltifying? (was [PATCH 3/6] pack-objects: no delta possible...) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:28:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <1192586150-13743-1-git-send-email-nico@cam.org> <1192586150-13743-2-git-send-email-nico@cam.org> <1192586150-13743-3-git-send-email-nico@cam.org> <1192586150-13743-4-git-send-email-nico@cam.org> <20071017021555.GP13801@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 17 04:29:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ihyei-0000OS-Nl for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:29:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754995AbXJQC26 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:28:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753631AbXJQC26 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:28:58 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:40768 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753194AbXJQC26 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:28:58 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0JQ100MMIAW866F1@VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:28:57 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <20071017021555.GP13801@spearce.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Nicolas Pitre 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