From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:28:24 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #06; Sun, 27)
Message-ID: <20110302212824.GF20400@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vwrkiccy6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:24:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >   - 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