On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
