From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:28:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Deltifying? (was [PATCH 3/6] pack-objects: no delta possible...)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710162224590.19446@xanadu.home>
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