From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?T25kxZllaiBCw61sa2E=?= Subject: American or British English? Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:56:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20130720205620.GA3825@domone> References: <20130720190707.GA30044@domone> <20130720191311.GB30044@domone> <20130720193905.GA3904@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "brian m. carlson" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 20 22:56:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V0eCb-0005ft-Py for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:56:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755085Ab3GTU40 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:56:26 -0400 Received: from popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.20.131]:47548 "EHLO popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754974Ab3GTU4Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:56:25 -0400 Received: from domone.kolej.mff.cuni.cz (popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz [195.113.20.131]) by popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0709943003; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:56:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by domone.kolej.mff.cuni.cz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A804B5FB94; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:56:20 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130720193905.GA3904@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 07:39:06PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 09:13:12PM +0200, Ond=C5=99ej B=C3=ADlka wrot= e: > > A dictionary that I generated is following, patch is below. > >=20 > > alloted allocated >=20 > "allotted" is a valid word, and I think it would work fine in the cod= e. > It's probably what was intended, anyway. >=20 OK, I am not native speaker so I sometimes choose simpler variant. > > behaviour behavior > > colourful colorful > > initialised initialized >=20 > I'm not sure whether git has a standard for which dialect of English = is > to be used, but the three words on the left are considered correct in > most non-American dialects. Characterizing them as "typos" isn't > strictly correct. Perhaps "Convert comments to American English" is > more accurate? > Yeah, on most projects I seen preference for consistently using America= n versions. How you decide is matter of preference. > --=20 > brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US > +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion o= nly > OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B= 187