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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i18n: Avoid sentence puzzles
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:57:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vty3dauif.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201301231.21090.schwarzerf@gmail.com> (Frederik Schwarzer's message of "Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:31:20 +0100")

Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com> writes:

> So my question would be: Is it considered worth it to extend the code 
> for translators' and translations' sake? If so, I would be glad to 
> help with that.

The sample you supplied for 'branch' vs 'remote branch' is a good change
in the logic to choose what translatable message to use, and I do suspect
that there are other instances of problems of this kind.

I am expecting that we may see some activity to the logic in that file
during this cycle, and we would need to be careful not make people step on
other people's toes, though.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-30 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-30 11:31 i18n: Avoid sentence puzzles Frederik Schwarzer
2012-01-30 11:46 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-01-30 18:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-01-30 21:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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