Re: German translation of git man pages

From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date: Jul 30, 2008, 12:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20080730122510.GD8767@leksak.fem-net>
In-Reply-To: <1217418938.6924.2.camel@localhost>

Hi,

Matthias Kestenholz wrote:

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> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:53 +0200, Fabio Scotoni wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm currently trying to translate the git man pages into german, as some
> > of my co-developers want to stick with svn. Of course, I could use
> > git-svn, but it's not what i want. Our svn server crashed two times and
> > we lost the history two times.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> There was a long discussion some months ago on this list concering the
> localization of git-gui into german.

The link is: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/80936/focus=81031

The selected mail also has two further pointers with some discussion.

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> Maybe you'll find some inspiration here:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=git-gui/po/de.po;hb=HEAD
> 
> It would probably be very worthwile to follow the translations there
> because users of git-gui will feel at home at once instead of having to
> re-learn things.

The glossary may also be a good help: http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=git-gui/po/glossary/de.po

Regards.

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