From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:53:34 +0100 Message-ID: <874mtbjr01.fsf@igel.home> References: <54801C39020000A1000182FA@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> <54801B50.4080500@web.de> <20141204095557.GE27455@peff.net> <548087F8.1030103@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , Jeff King , Torsten =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= , Ulrich Windl , Git Mailing List To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 04 17:53:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XwZey-0000Me-35 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:53:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932513AbaLDQxk (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 11:53:40 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:48561 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932240AbaLDQxj (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 11:53:39 -0500 Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3jtjmc2XvKz3hkyl; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:53:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3jtjmb3ytPzvh2h; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:53:35 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UVbpBzZjS-pE; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:53:34 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: zg8iubhwTTdUuw9dnuhOtUZxCP3wFIro6RELf+QWpZeofOYVfy8XI1qEmOlVQHjZ Received: from igel.home (host-188-174-211-246.customer.m-online.net [188.174.211.246]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:53:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 09C6E2C16EB; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:53:34 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Today, THREE WINOS from DETROIT sold me a framed photo of TAB HUNTER before his MAKEOVER! In-Reply-To: <548087F8.1030103@drmicha.warpmail.net> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:12:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael J Gruber writes: > The main issue at hand is really that we have localised git but not its > man pages. Even if you understand English, the man pages don't help you > at all if you can't connect the technical terms used there to their > localised counterparts in git's messages. (NO_GETTEXT=y is my solution.) So the problem is just that the localisation is incomplete. This is unfortunate, but happens with a lot of software out there, and providing a git-only solution doesn't help the case. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."