From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Riesen Subject: Re: How to run git-gui always in English? Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:41:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20071026214124.GB3062@steel.home> References: Reply-To: Alex Riesen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steffen Prohaska , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Git Mailing List To: Peter Karlsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 26 23:41:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IlWvz-0002OB-J8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:41:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753283AbXJZVl3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:41:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754241AbXJZVl3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:41:29 -0400 Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.190]:24732 "EHLO mo-p07-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753184AbXJZVl2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:41:28 -0400 Received: from tigra.home (Fa859.f.strato-dslnet.de [195.4.168.89]) by post.webmailer.de (klopstock mo14) (RZmta 14.0) with ESMTP id d038fcj9QHIGgX ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:41:24 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from: ) Received: from steel.home (steel.home [192.168.1.2]) by tigra.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20D9277AE; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:41:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by steel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 69CDF56D22; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:41:24 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-RZG-AUTH: z4gQVF2k5XWuW3Ccul2ggT2NGA== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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"