From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs>,
"Ramkumar Ramachandra" <artagnon@gmail.com>,
"Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] gettextize: git-revert messages using the "me" variable
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:39:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100907053936.GS1182@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=8VXBFW7jzUe4EuCd+i221zRUt6LHGBYG8FQya@mail.gmail.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 18:50, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not good, in my opinion. The dialogue ought to look like this, I think:
>>
>> $ git cherry-pick astermay
>> ...
>> fatal: cherry-pick: Unableway otay itewray ewnay indexway ilefay
[...]
> I don't know if all of the above hold true, e.g. because some
> languages will always transliterate things, even proper nouns.
>
> But as mentioned before the string is probably being used in too many
> different contexts for it to be useful to them.
Hmm, okay. Do you mean languages like Japanese or something else? At
any rate, I guess you are right that this is too complicated for the
moment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-04 22:10 [PATCH 00/63] [REDO] Add gettext support to Git Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-04 22:10 ` [PATCH 01/63] builtin: use builtin.h for all builtin commands Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-04 22:10 ` [PATCH 02/63] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-04 22:10 ` [PATCH 05/63] tests: locate i18n lib&data correctly under --valgrind Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-04 22:10 ` [PATCH 21/63] po/is.po: add Icelandic translation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-04 22:10 ` [PATCH 26/63] gettext tests: add GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease Makefile parameter Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-04 22:10 ` [PATCH 27/63] gettext tests: skip lib-gettext.sh tests under GETTEXT_POISON Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-04 22:10 ` [PATCH 28/63] gettext tests: skip breaking " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-04 22:10 ` [PATCH 51/63] gettextize: git-merge basic messages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-04 22:10 ` [PATCH 63/63] po/en_GB.po: add British English Translation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 00/15] [REDO CONTINUE] Add gettext support to Git Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 01/15] gettextize: git-archive basic messages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 02/15] gettextize: git-bundle " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 03/15] gettextize: git-clean " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 04/15] gettextize: git-clean clean.requireForce messages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 05/15] gettextize: git-describe basic messages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 06/15] gettextize: git-gc " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 07/15] gettextize: git-gc "Auto packing the repository" message Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 08/15] gettextize: git-notes basic commands Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 09/15] gettextize: git-notes GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE error message Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 10/15] gettextize: git-notes "Refusing to %s notes in %s" message Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 11/15] gettextize: git-revert basic messages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 12/15] gettextize: git-revert mark the "me" variable for translation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 18:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-06 20:06 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 20:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 13/15] gettextize: git-revert messages using the "me" variable Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 18:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-06 20:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-07 5:39 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-09-07 8:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-10 0:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 14/15] gettextize: git-revert split up "could not revert/apply" message Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 18:55 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-06 20:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-07 5:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-07 8:47 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 12:21 ` [PATCH 15/15] gettextize: git-shortlog basic messages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 18:41 ` Jonathan Nieder
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