Re: [PATCH 00/20] [CONTINUE] Add gettext support to Git

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, since you didn't pick this up in the last push I fixed it up a bit
> more.
>
> I rebased ab/i18n-all-continue on the new master:
>
>     git fetch git://github.com/avar/git +ab/i18n-all-continue:ab/i18n
>
> But you probably want this instead:
>
>     git fetch git://github.com/avar/git +ab/i18n-all-continue-with-hindi:ab/i18n
>
> I took the liberty of adding Ramkumar Ramachandra's hi.po patch to the
> series.

I think that the latter is "i18n-continue-with-hindi" (no "all"), and also
suspect that ab/i18n-all-continue either hasn't be pushed out or is stale?

The copy of "all-continue" I just fetched ends with 2b5170f (gettextize:
git-shortlog basic messages, 2010-09-05) while hindi^ is at c4adf2e
(gettextize: git-am printf(1) message to eval_gettext, 2010-09-07).

I haven't formed an opinion as to what to do with the *.po files after the
series hits 'next' (or anything more stable than 'pu'); my preference is
to delegate that part of the system to somebody who volunteers as an i18n
coordinator, and pull from him/her from time to time, just like the way
gitk and git-gui are managed.

For now, I'll queue the whole thing and merge that to 'pu', but we would
want to squash l10n commits after (but not including) 8d65a35 (gettext
tests: test re-encoding with a UTF-8 msgid under Shell, 2010-08-30) that
touch only one file in po/*.po into one commit per language, move them
near the tip after all the infrastructure enhancements (and fix-ups to the
infrastructure, if necessary) and individual command i18ns, to make the
end result a reasonably complete and clean "first cut for public testing"
of the series before it hits 'next'.

As a companion update to 6495411 (gettext docs: add po/README file
documenting Git's gettext, 2010-09-03), we would need a file in
Documentation/ directory to describe the use of _() and N_() for
programmers and point it from CodingGuidelines.  We might also want to
move po/README to Documentation/ but I don't have strong preference either
way.

Thanks.