From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects' Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:34:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20071019023426.GA14735@spearce.org> References: <20071019004527.GA12930@spearce.org> <20071019021255.GD3290@coredump.intra.peff.net> <47181430.2080907@vilain.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Sam Vilain , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre To: David Symonds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 19 04:34:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IihhN-00020j-5M for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:34:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763779AbXJSCeh (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:34:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763754AbXJSCeh (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:34:37 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:43517 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763538AbXJSCeg (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:34:36 -0400 Received: from [74.70.48.173] (helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Iihgi-00008z-WA; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:34:13 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C83C920FBAE; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:34:26 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Symonds wrote: > On 19/10/2007, Sam Vilain wrote: > > Jeff King wrote: > > > Boo. I _like_ "deltifying". Sure, it's probably not in the dictionary, > > > but that's how languages change: saying "delta compressing" all the time > > > will get awkward, so people invent a new word using existing rules to > > > explain a common phenomenon. > > > > This is not very considerate to non-native speakers, though, who might > > not grasp the neogolism. > > > > Perhaps just "compressing" if it gets awkward. > > Forward thinking, that's probably most sensible, since git 4.7 might > not use delta compression, but maybe wavelet compression, or other > scheme entirely. Using deltas is an implementation detail, after all. Heh. I just remembered that my packv4 topic had a phase it called "Dictifying objects". Which ran before "Deltifying objects". It was just another form of compression, but it was also timeconsuming and an entirely different loop so it got its own progress meter. I'm leaning to making it just say "Compressing objects". Simple, to the point, reasonably describes the action, and most people will understand what it means: "Oh, time to go get coffee if that number there is reeeealy big..." :-) -- Shawn.