From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
To: "Sam Vilain" <sam@vilain.net>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:24:44 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20710181924j7c538468r75f0f17968af7b01@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47181430.2080907@vilain.net>
On 19/10/2007, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> 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.
Dave.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 0:45 [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects' Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 2:12 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 2:19 ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-19 2:24 ` David Symonds [this message]
2007-10-19 2:34 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 3:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 2:36 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 2:55 ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-19 2:25 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 2:21 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 2:34 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 2:47 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 3:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 3:07 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 3:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 3:32 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 3:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 3:56 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 4:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-19 4:29 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 11:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-19 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-19 5:09 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 3:33 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 5:03 ` [PATCH] Stop displaying "Pack pack-$ID created." during git-gc Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 2:49 ` [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects' Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 3:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 3:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 3:41 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 3:45 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 4:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 11:44 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-19 2:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 2:59 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 3:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-19 3:15 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 3:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
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