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 - 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
