From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:06:02 GMT Subject: Re: German translation of git man pages Message-ID: <20080730110602.GB20957@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: <1217408012.9486.13.camel@hydra.esse.ch> Fabio Scotoni wrote: >Our native language is german and they don't like to read english >documentation. I already started translating but have some problems: >Should i translate "branch" with the appropriate german word or keep it >english? This is a Problem for "pull" "push" and the other actions as >well. Basically it's possible to copy words, but that isn't very >esthetical. A good translation will translate those words. However, since the commandline interface uses the English words, you'll be forced to re-explain that relationship a lot of times (using parenthesis, most likely). -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. How many weeks are there in a lightyear?