From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:04:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update and fix Makefile
Message-ID: <20080112050433.GD5211@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6gn29w1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:57:34PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I agree with you that both are valid spellings, but when I
> received 9e5d87d49070fe0463040e826824d6ce41beb089, I consulted a
> couple of dictionaries and descendant seemed to be more widely
> used.  Besides, I think the german translation update depends on
> it ;-).

Descendant is a noun, whereas descendent is an adjective. Though like
many such distinctions, the two forms increasingly are used
interchangeably.

-Peff