Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update German translation

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: May 2, 2008, 11:49 UTC
Message-ID: <18458.65466.449698.790306@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <200805012142.10151.stimming@tuhh.de>

Christian Stimming writes:

> Attached to avoid whitespace problems. This patch is against master of 
> gitk.git at git.kernel.org.

Thanks.

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> By the way, the following two keybinding explanations seem ambiguous to me:
> 
> >   <Home>  Move to first commit
> >   <End>   Move to last commit
> 
> What happens is that <home> jumps to the newest commit and <end> jumps to the 
> oldest commit. Whether the "first" commit should be the newest or the oldest 
> is, well, somewhat ambiguous. I'd propose to talk about the newest or topmost 
> commit, but rather not about the "first".

Well, the commits aren't in date order, strictly speaking, and the last commit isn't necessarily the oldest (though the first commit will in fact be the newest). How about:

<Home> Move to head of list <End> Move to tail of list

Would that be any clearer?

Paul.