Re: [L10N] Kickoff of translation for Git 2.6.0 round 1

[John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 09:14:18PM +0800, Jiang Xin wrote:
> 2015-09-05 18:02 GMT+08:00 Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr>:
> > Le samedi 5 septembre 2015, 10:17:54 Jiang Xin a écrit :
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Git v2.6.0-rc0 has been released, and it's time to start new round of git
> >> l10n. This time there are 123 updated messages need to be translated since
> >> last update:
> >>
> >>     l10n: git.pot: v2.6.0 round 1 (123 new, 41 removed)
> >>
> >>     Generate po/git.pot from v2.6.0-rc0-24-gec371ff for git v2.6.0 l10n
> >>     round 1.
> >>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> You can get it from the usual place:
> >>
> >>     https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/
> >>
> >> As how to update your XX.po and help to translate Git, please see
> >> "Updating a XX.po file" and other sections in “po/README" file.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jiang Xin
> >
> >
> > Some new strings are not consistent with the actual set.
> >
> > For instance, in the "Could not ..." strings were all with capitals, and some
> > new ones are not. Last time, I remarked strings which were almost exactly the
> > same (only difference was a final dot, if I remember). Some help strings were
> > mixing different styles.
> 
> Before this update, "Could not" vs "could not" is 50:40, and now it's 50:50.
> 
>     $ grep 'Could not' po/git.pot  | wc -l
>     50
> 
>     $ grep 'could not' po/git.pot  | wc -l
>     50

Note that Documentation/CodingGuidelines has a section on error messages
which says:

 - Do not end error messages with a full stop.

 - Do not capitalize ("unable to open %s", not "Unable to open %s")

 - Say what the error is first ("cannot open %s", not "%s: cannot open")