From: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update and fix Makefile (spelling fix)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:06:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801132206.52023.stimming@tuhh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18311.64910.643392.816623@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Am Samstag, 12. Januar 2008 00:36 schrieb Paul Mackerras:
> > Christian Stimming (2):
> > gitk: Fix typo in user message.
>
> I was going to ignore this one since "descendent" is actually a valid
> alternate spelling, and is the one I am used to. However, I don't
> have a strong feeling about it.
In the dictionaries I consulted before proposing this patch, "descendant" was
the *only* valid spelling. I checked http://dict.leo.org/?search=descendent ,
(on paper) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (1998 edition). Now when
looking up http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/descendent your original spelling is
also mentioned as a variant, but as the other dictionaries didn't have it, I
assumed this should rather be changed.
Christian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-13 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-08 20:54 [PATCH] gitk: Update and fix Makefile Christian Stimming
2008-01-08 22:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-09 3:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-01-09 8:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-11 8:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-11 9:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-11 23:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-01-11 23:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12 5:04 ` Jeff King
2008-01-13 21:06 ` Christian Stimming [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=200801132206.52023.stimming@tuhh.de \
--to=stimming@tuhh.de \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=paulus@samba.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.