From: Nicolas Sebrecht Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:24:14 GMT Subject: Re: gitk : french translation Message-ID: <20091109012414.GA15022@vidovic> In-Reply-To: <4AF7502A.9020903@gmail.com> The 09/11/09, Maximilien Noal wrote: > Why not put the translation first, then the english word between () ? > At least for English words above that are not used by French devs "as > is" (not like "diff") ? Because it would decrease the readability. The () tip can't be used everywhere seriously. > That way, newbies to SCMs' concepts get the idea, and old SCM users > don't have to translate back. Newbies learning Git's concepts have more interest to learn the english words too ; the GUIs should help them to do so. Matthieu Moy explained why very well in this thread. -- Nicolas Sebrecht