From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Russian translation to gitk
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:20:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0904270220h598fa451vb3ff30f23dd5eab3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427083953.GB15723@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
2009/4/27 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:24:52PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> As with the git-gui translation, if someone understanding russian sees
>> this, could you please take a look and drop me a note if you find
>> something "strange"?
>
> The translation uses a single Russian verb "Перейти" in different
> meanings (where the original English phrase had "check out", "move",
> "go to", "focus) and that creates some ambiguity. For example:
>
>> +#: gitk:2347
>> +msgid "Check out this branch"
>> +msgstr "Перейти на эту ветвь"
>
>> +#: gitk:2644
>> +msgid "<Home>\t\tMove to first commit"
>> +msgstr "<Home>\t\tПерейти к первому состоянию"
>
> How one is supposed to know that when we speak about branch, "Перейти"
> means "check out" but when about some commit then it is "move"? Only
> because gitk does not allow to check out arbitrary commit _yet_?
>
> IMHO, it is very very confusing.
>
> I think "Check out this branch" should be translated as "Переключить
> рабочий каталог на эту ветвь" (which literally means: Switch worktree
> to this branch).
That looks too long (in a drop-down menu). How about
"Переключиться на эту ветвь"? IOW, drop the "worktree".
Besides, checkout is a bit of complicated operation to describe
it with that level of detail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-27 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-26 13:24 [PATCH] Add Russian translation to gitk Alex Riesen
2009-04-27 7:51 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-27 8:10 ` Alex Riesen
2009-04-27 18:04 ` Alex Riesen
2009-04-27 8:39 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-27 9:20 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2009-04-27 9:32 ` Dmitry Potapov
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