From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Stimming Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update and fix Makefile (spelling fix) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:06:51 +0100 Organization: Alumni Technische =?iso-8859-1?q?Universit=E4t?= Hamburg-Harburg Message-ID: <200801132206.52023.stimming@tuhh.de> References: <200801082154.21282.stimming@tuhh.de> <7vfxx43f5r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <18311.64910.643392.816623@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Mackerras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 13 22:10:01 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 1JEA5g-0001Ev-It for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:10:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753829AbYAMVJc (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:09:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753879AbYAMVJc (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:09:32 -0500 Received: from smtp1.rz.tu-harburg.de ([134.28.202.166]:40938 "EHLO smtp1.rz.tu-harburg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753566AbYAMVJc (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:09:32 -0500 Received: from mail2.rz.tu-harburg.de (mail2.rz.tu-harburg.de [134.28.202.179]) by smtp1.rz.tu-harburg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0DL96MV000577 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:09:06 +0100 Received: from [192.168.2.102] (p549035E2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.144.53.226]) (user=alucst mech=LOGIN bits=0) by mail2.rz.tu-harburg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0DL955w005842 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:09:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <18311.64910.643392.816623@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Scanned-By: TUHH Rechenzentrum content checker on 134.28.202.166 X-Scanned-By: TUHH Rechenzentrum content checker on 134.28.202.179 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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