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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Improve wording in a comment

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
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Feb 5, 2015, 19:19 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
>> ---
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> Is that an improvement?  Is the plural of "dup" (used as an
> abbreviation of "duplicate") "dupes" not "dups"?

My view is that the abbreviation of "duplicate" is not "dup" but "dupe", hence the plural "dupes".

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