Re: [PATCH] Re: git-gui: various French translation fixes

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:49:02PM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009, Christian Couder wrote:
> > > > > >  #: git-gui.sh:2484 lib/index.tcl:410
> > > > > >  msgid "Revert Changes"
> > > > > > -msgstr "Annuler les modifications (revert)"
> > > > > > +msgstr "Révoquer les modifications"
> > > > >
> > > > > I am not sure that "Révoquer" is better than "Annuler".
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps "Inverser"?
>
> [...]
>
> >    Sorry, I misread the Wikipedia interface because I wasn't logged in
> > and only admins can truly revert edits.
>
> I don't think that we have to conform to Wikipédia.
>
> >                                         So it does have "revert" (to
> > cancel an edit) and "undo" (to perform the opposite edit of a given
> > edit), which get translated to "révoquer" and "défaire". I therefore
> > think "révoquer" is just as good as the others.
>
> I disagree here.
>
> "Annuler", "Révoquer", "Inverser" or "Défaire" usualy stands for the
> same thing but :
> - thoses words doesn't have stricly the same meanings ;
> - we are in a special case here because of the underlying technical
>   result.
>
> We should care that the revert operation does *not* remove a commit but
> add a new one (this makes sense to Git). As a consequence, we should
> avoid "Annuler", "Révoquer" and "Défaire".
>
> "Inverser" looks like the best translation.