Re: [PATCH] gitk: Update German translation

From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date: May 25, 2008, 21:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20080525215708.GB9564@leksak.fem-net>
In-Reply-To: <200805242248.23413.stimming@tuhh.de>

Hi Christian,

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> > I want to repeat my suggestions from the last mail:
> >   1. "Suche nächste/vorige Version nach _Beschreibung:_ [insert]"
> >   2. "Suche nächste/vorige Version nach _Pfaden:_ [insert]"
> >      (or maybe "nach _Dateien:_", if it's commonly accepted that
> >       directories are files, too.)
> >   3. "Suche nächste/vorige Version nach _Änderungen:_ [insert]"
> > which makes it much more clearer than the English original, imho.
> 
> Okay, I've inserted your suggestions in my translation update. I'm not too 
> sure about any translation of this part, but your proposal is maybe better 
> than the existing one.

You can make yourself sure by trying the features or by reading the source code. ;-) Since I've translated them in that way, I know what they do and I use them more often. So I'm pretty sure.

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> > And I think a better translation for "pull" is 
> > something that stresses the fact that "pull" = "fetch" + "merge",
> > something like "Holen und Zusammenführen".
> 
> That's indeed an interesting suggestion. (Which bears the question why it is 
> being called "pull" in English in the first place,

Well, this seems not to be clear to some users, since there is often uncertainty about "pull" ;)

Regards,
  Stephan

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