Re: update-po

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> しらいしななこ  <nanako3@bluebottle.com> writes:
> 
> > Quoting Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >
> >> msgid "Add Existing"
> >> msgstr ""
> >>
> >
> > I had problem when translating this word "Existing" in my old translation.
> > I did not understand what that expression meaned.  My old translation for
> > "Add Existing To Commit" said, because I did not understand what it meant,
> > "Add Some Existing THING To Commit", and it felt very wrong, but I could
> > not come up with anything better.
> 
> I did not quite understand the "Existing" either (I do not
> use git-gui myself---I just launch it from time to time to make
> sure it does not barf on simple operations as part of the last
> minite tests before pushing changes to git.git out), and had a
> discussion on #git channel with a few people.
> 
> My reading of git-gui code suggests that "Add Existing To
> Commit" is used in an item in "Commit" menu, while "Add
> Existing" is a label on the button, and they do exactly the same
> operation.  It updates the index with the current contents of
> the tracked files.  That is, deleted files are discarded from
> the index, and modified files are updated.  IOW, "git add -u".

Yes, that's exactly correct.

> "Existing" is probably a misnomer even in the original English
> UI --- it is more about "Tracked".  I think your confusion about
> "Add unexisting" is justified, because "Add Existing" operation
> is not about "existing" but "all tracked files without having me
> pick and select all of them", and the other variant, "Add To
> Commit", lets you add selected files, be they "tracked" or
> "untracked".

I agree.  I'm going to change the base English version to say
"Tracked" here instead of "Existing".  Its the correct term,
at least with regards to Git.

Thanks for the sanity check.

-- 
Shawn.