From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
To: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch>
Cc: Fabio Scotoni <fabio@esse.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: German translation of git man pages
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:25:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730122510.GD8767@leksak.fem-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217418938.6924.2.camel@localhost>
Hi,
Matthias Kestenholz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:53 +0200, Fabio Scotoni wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm currently trying to translate the git man pages into german, as some
> > of my co-developers want to stick with svn. Of course, I could use
> > git-svn, but it's not what i want. Our svn server crashed two times and
> > we lost the history two times.
> >
> > Our native language is german and they don't like to read english
> > documentation. I already started translating but have some problems:
> > Should i translate "branch" with the appropriate german word or keep it
> > english? This is a Problem for "pull" "push" and the other actions as
> > well. Basically it's possible to copy words, but that isn't very
> > esthetical.
>
> There was a long discussion some months ago on this list concering the
> localization of git-gui into german.
The link is:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/80936/focus=81031
The selected mail also has two further pointers with some discussion.
> Maybe you'll find some inspiration here:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=git-gui/po/de.po;hb=HEAD
>
> It would probably be very worthwile to follow the translations there
> because users of git-gui will feel at home at once instead of having to
> re-learn things.
The glossary may also be a good help:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=git-gui/po/glossary/de.po
Regards.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 8:53 German translation of git man pages Fabio Scotoni
2008-07-30 11:06 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-30 11:21 ` Mark Struberg
2008-07-30 11:55 ` Matthias Kestenholz
2008-07-30 12:25 ` Stephan Beyer [this message]
2008-07-30 12:33 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-08-03 17:26 ` Fabio Scotoni
2008-08-04 18:43 ` Stephan Beyer
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2008-07-30 14:05 Fabio Scotoni
2008-07-30 16:03 ` Petr Baudis
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