From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update and fix Makefile Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:04:33 -0500 Message-ID: <20080112050433.GD5211@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <200801082154.21282.stimming@tuhh.de> <7vk5mkq669.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <18308.17099.334609.80415@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <7vk5mg3fjf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vfxx43f5r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <18311.64910.643392.816623@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <7vr6gn29w1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Paul Mackerras , Christian Stimming , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 12 06:05:59 2008 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 1JDYYW-0004D6-AX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:05:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750752AbYALFEn (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:04:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750744AbYALFEn (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:04:43 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:3798 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbYALFEm (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:04:42 -0500 Received: (qmail 4116 invoked by uid 111); 12 Jan 2008 05:04:34 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:04:34 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:04:33 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vr6gn29w1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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