Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #06; Sun, 27)
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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- Mar 2, 2011, 21:28 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:24:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > - Nit: you nicely use "%d commit%s" to handle the single/plural case > > in the warning message, but then you "them" later on. It needs > > (1 < lost) ? "them" : "it". > > I actually don't like playing games like that, especially when i18n topic > is in flight. Among the languages I know rules reasonably well, two has > the rule that a countable noun is spelled differently depending on the > number of that thing is one or more, and one spells the noun the same way > regardless of the number. Who knows if git needs to be translated into a > language whose noun changes its shape three-way, depending on the number > being one, two, or more?
OK, I am showing my English-centric ignorance then, I think. :) I will leave that topic for the i18n people to deal with.
-Peff