Re: How to run git-gui always in English?

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Peter Karlsson, Fri, Oct 26, 2007 10:00:32 +0200:
> Steffen Prohaska:
>
>> There are a lot of efforts going on to localize git-gui, including 
>> technical terms like "push". Personally I don't understand what this 
>> should be useful for. The command is called "git push"s. So, why should it 
>> be named differently in the gui.
>
> Not that I agree that "push" is a technical word, but perhaps you have a 
> point. Why should there be such words in the GUI to start with? It's a GUI, 
> trying to abstract away the command line. Why not have a button "Send" or a 
> menu entry "Send changes to server", mimicing the "git push" command line 
> option? Using command line names or showing protocol data directly in a 
> user-oriented GUI is most often a bad idea.
>
> Or perhaps what we need is an actual translation from "gitish" to English, 
> which would have
>
> msgid "Push"
> msgstr "Send changes to server"
>

Because you do not send changes to a _server_. There is no server.
There is just another repo. Hence just "push"