[PATCH/RFC 06/17] gettext: localize the main git-init message

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2010, 21:28 UTC
Message-ID: <1283203703-26923-7-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1283203703-26923-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

Change the git-init "Initialized empty Git repository" message and its variants to use gettext.

This is one of the messages that could do with splitting up, I had a WIP patch to do that that began like this:

    const char *reinit_shared   = _("Reinitialized existing shared Git repository in %s\n");
    const char *init_shared	    = _("Initialized empty shared Git repository in %s\n");
    const char *reinit_noshared = _("Reinitialized existing Git repository in %s\n");
    const char *init_noshared   = _("Initialized empty Git repository in %s\n");

But in the first round of gettextization I'm aiming to keep code changes to a minimum for ease of review.

We can solicit input from translators about which messages that use too much sprintf-ing are troublesome, and change those later.

Note that the TRANSLATORS comment doesn't use the usual Git style. This is because everything from "/* TRANSLATORS: " to "*/" will extracted as-is xgettext(1) and presented to translators, including newlines and leading "*"'s. There seems to be no way to change that, short of patching xgettext itself.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/init-db.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/init-db.c b/builtin/init-db.c
index 9c08985..0224dee 100644
--- a/builtin/init-db.c
+++ b/builtin/init-db.c
@@ -348,9 +348,13 @@ int init_db(const char *template_dir, unsigned int flags)
 	if (!(flags & INIT_DB_QUIET)) {
 		const char *git_dir = get_git_dir();
 		int len = strlen(git_dir);
-		printf("%s%s Git repository in %s%s\n",
-		       reinit ? "Reinitialized existing" : "Initialized empty",
-		       shared_repository ? " shared" : "",
+
+		/* TRANSLATORS: The first '%s' is either "Reinitialized
+		   existing" or "Initialized empty", the second " shared" or
+		   "", and the last '%s%s' is the verbatim directory name. */
+		printf(_("%s%s Git repository in %s%s\n"),
+		       reinit ? _("Reinitialized existing") : _("Initialized empty"),
+		       shared_repository ? _(" shared") : "",
 		       git_dir, len && git_dir[len-1] != '/' ? "/" : "");
 	}

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