2011/2/28 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>:
> Le lundi 28 février 2011 à 13:56 -0600, Benjamin Peterson a écrit :
>> 2011/2/28 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>:
>> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:36:11 -0500
>> > Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > +  an existing branch.  The pusher then has to merge the superfetatory 
>> >> > heads
>> >>
>> >> 'superfetatory'? I have no idea of what this is, neither does
>> >> merriam-webster.com ;-).
>> >
>> > There are some Google hits, though... Not sure if they are of people
>> > making the same mistakes as I do ;)
>>
>> Endly, perhaps it will be adopted. Did you mean "superfluous" though?
>
> I really meant superfetatory (it's slightly different: superfluous is
> simply useless, while superfetatory implies that it's in excess).

superfluous - "in excess of what is required or sufficient"



-- 
Regards,
Benjamin
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