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Re: [PATCH] git-gui.git: Wording suggestions, 2nd try

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jul 29, 2007, 07:08 UTC
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<20070729070820.GK20052@spearce.org>
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<200707282217.10772.stimming@tuhh.de>
Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> wrote:
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> Unify wording to say "to stage" instead of "to add" always.
> 
> Also, the warning message when clicking "Reset" is adapted to
> the wording "Reset" rather than a confusion "Cancel commit?".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>
> ---
> This time, this patch is actually based on git-gui.git's master. If
> you want to, you can directly apply this regardless of i18n work that
> was deferred until later.  The last hunk in lib/merge.tcl looks a
> bit confusing; in preparation of i18n work, the previous message
> that inserted a single word into the long english sentence was
> already replaced by the i18n'able form of two completely different
> messages. But nevertheless the main point is that when clicking
> "Reset", the upcoming question should use the wording "reset",
> which it will do after this patch.

Thanks, I'm including this in 0.8.0 as I think it makes things a lot clearer, at least for English speakers. ;-)

As soon as git 1.5.3 ships I'll start work on 0.9.0, and I'm
looking to bringing the i18n work in as the first series of
changes for the 0.9.x series...
 
-- 
Shawn.
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  1. git-gui wording suggestionsChristian Stimming, Jul 26, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceJul 27, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2007
  4. Christian StimmingJul 27, 2007
  5. Christian StimmingJul 28, 2007
  6. Shawn O. PearceJul 29, 2007

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