From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:26:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] i18n: mark relative dates for translation
Message-ID: <20120425172605.GA2578@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzk9zdbf7.fsf@junio.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

>                               what I meant was that diff will be so
> large that this will always be feeding more than 1 to %lu, so the first
> template string will never be used.
>
> But it cannot be N_("%lu years ago", number), as others correctly
> pointed out.  We want to use ngettext() here, because it is not enough
> to know that number is always greater than 1 to correctly phrase this in
> some languages.

Ah, I see now.  Thanks for a patient explanation.