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Re: Deltifying? (was [PATCH 3/6] pack-objects: no delta possible...)

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Oct 17, 2007, 02:28 UTC
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> 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
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Message 9 of 17 in “miscelaneous stuff”
  1. 0/6 miscelaneous stuffNicolas Pitre, Oct 17, 2007
  2. 1/6 more compact progress displayNicolas Pitre, Oct 17, 2007
  3. 2/6 cope with multiple line breaks within sideband progress messagesNicolas Pitre, Oct 17, 2007
  4. 3/6 pack-objects: no delta possible with only one object in the listNicolas Pitre, Oct 17, 2007
  5. 4/6 pack-objects.c: fix some global variable abuse and memory leaksNicolas Pitre, Oct 17, 2007
  6. 5/6 fix const issues with some functionsNicolas Pitre, Oct 17, 2007
  7. 6/6 fix for more minor memory leaksNicolas Pitre, Oct 17, 2007
  8. Deltifying? (was [PATCH 3/6] pack-objects: no delta possible...)Shawn O. Pearce, Oct 17, 2007
  9. Nicolas PitreOct 17, 2007
  10. Shawn O. PearceOct 17, 2007
  11. Nicolas PitreOct 17, 2007
  12. Karl HasselströmOct 17, 2007
  13. Nicolas PitreOct 17, 2007
  14. Shawn O. PearceOct 18, 2007
  15. Karl HasselströmOct 18, 2007
  16. Johannes SixtOct 17, 2007
  17. Shawn O. PearceOct 17, 2007

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