Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] blame: use a helper to get suitable blame_date_width

[Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>]

2014-04-22 3:19 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> What I am wondering is if we can do something
>> like this:
>> ...
>
> Nah, that is a lot more stupid than just doing
>
>>     In code:
>>
>>         blame_date_width = strtoul(_("4 years, 11 months ago"), NULL, 10) + 1;
>>
>>     In git.pot:
>>
>>         #. This string is used to tell us the maximum display width for a
>>         #. relative timestamp in "git blame" output.  For C locale, "4 years,
>>         #. 11 months ago", which takes 22 places, is the longest among various
>>         #. forms of relative timestamps, but your language may need more or
>>         #. fewer display columns.
>>         msgid "4 years, 11 months ago"
>>         msgstr ""
>>
>>     In de.po:
>>         #. This string is used to tell us the maximum display width for a
>>         #. relative timestamp in "git blame" output.  For C locale, "4 years,
>>         #. 11 months ago", which takes 22 places, is the longest among various
>>         #. forms of relative timestamps, but your language may need more or
>>         #. fewer display columns.
>>         msgid "4 years, 11 months ago"
>>         msgstr ""vor 4 Jahren, und 11 Monaten"
>
> which is essentially how your very original looked like (modulo the
> comments).  So let's not try to be clever or cute, and just have a
> good instruction in the TRANSLATORS comments.
>
> Sorry for flipping and flopping on this one.

I will send patch v4 tonight, and I think all l10n team leaders should
pay attention
to this thread:

 * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/246464

-- 
Jiang Xin