Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:45:27PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

Recently I was referred to the Grammar Police as the git-pack-objects
progress message 'Deltifying %u objects' is considered to be not
proper English to at least some small but vocal segment of the
English speaking population.  Techncially we are applying delta
compression to these objects at this stage, so the new term is
slightly more acceptable to the Grammar Police but is also just
as correct.

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.

Anyway, if you want to please the Grammar Police, should it not be
"Delta-compressing"?  "Delta" is not an adverb here, but rather the
phrase acts as a compound verb (i.e., the two words work in place of a
single verb). Although "Delta-compressing objects" just looks stupid.

-Peff