From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Sverre Rabbelier" <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #06; Sun, 27)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:28:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110302212824.GF20400@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwrkiccy6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:24:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > - Nit: you nicely use "%d commit%s" to handle the single/plural case
> > in the warning message, but then you "them" later on. It needs
> > (1 < lost) ? "them" : "it".
>
> I actually don't like playing games like that, especially when i18n topic
> is in flight. Among the languages I know rules reasonably well, two has
> the rule that a countable noun is spelled differently depending on the
> number of that thing is one or more, and one spells the noun the same way
> regardless of the number. Who knows if git needs to be translated into a
> language whose noun changes its shape three-way, depending on the number
> being one, two, or more?
OK, I am showing my English-centric ignorance then, I think. :) I will
leave that topic for the i18n people to deal with.
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-02 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-28 6:48 What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #06; Sun, 27) Junio C Hamano
2011-02-28 13:22 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-28 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-01 20:54 ` Jeff King
2011-03-02 2:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-02 21:27 ` Jeff King
2011-03-02 5:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-02 7:17 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-02 10:32 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-03-10 9:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-03-10 16:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-03-02 21:28 ` Jeff King [this message]
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