Re: translation difficulties :: revision and commit

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Apr 27, 2011, 20:06 UTC
Message-ID: <1303934784.25134.74.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1104271327550.23722@ds9.cixit.se>

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 13:29 +0100, Peter Krefting wrote:

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> Motiejus Jakštys:
> 
> > I am doing git translation to Lithuanian, and cannot find the difference
> > between "revision" and "commit", as I need to create a word for
> > "commit". It is confusing.
> 
> For Swedish, I used a translation of "check-in" (as when checking in at an 
> airport) for "commit", both in the verb and noun forms.

If you seek to avoid SVN-isms I suggest thinking about the deconstruction of "commit" in the context we are using it: "to commit the current state of the working directory as known by Git to the recorded history." That we are using it as a noun in the Git documentation is pure jargon, separate from the original verb (which happens to be transitive in English, making natural noun-ification less likely). So far as the language element is concerned, it could have been chosen to be a "flubberbudget" and provided nobody attempted suggesting to Linus that he'd be insane for calling it that it would have had a decent chance of staying that way. ;-)

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