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Re: [PATCH] rebase: make warning less passive aggressive

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Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr>
Date
Feb 21, 2024, 22:05 UTC
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On Wednesday, 21 February 2024 19:30:18 CET Michal Suchánek wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 10:02:04AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> writes:
> > >
> > >> Or if it does touch the po files it could as well update the
> > >> translations.
> > >>
> > >> There are changes that can be trivially translated without any 
knowledge
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> > >> of the target language.
> > >
> > > You need to know the target language before deciding it is OK and
> > > sufficient to just remove ̉¿? from around a sentence to make it from
> > > a question to a statement of a fact.  You may know enough, but
> > > reviewers may not be.  In addition, it would allow bypassing the
> > > language teams, which is the most serious problem I see in such an
> > > attitude.
> > 
> > Oops, "attitude" -> "approach".
> 
> That's certainly true that even if you know how to remove a question
> mark you may not find a reviewer who knows how to remove one.
> 
> Nonetheless, if you do find both a patch author and a reviewer that know
> how to remove a question mark what is the problem with not involving
> several language teams to remove a question mark?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michal
> 
> 

As a translator, I'm less bothered by editing a sentence to remove a question mark (maybe enforcing a language style and reformulating the sentence by the way), than by translating again and again similar sentences.

Thanks
JN
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  1. rebase: make warning less passive aggressiveHarmen Stoppels via GitGitGadget, Feb 20, 2024
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2024
  3. Michal SuchánekFeb 21, 2024
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2024
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2024
  6. Michal SuchánekFeb 21, 2024
  7. Jean-Noël AVILAFeb 21, 2024
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2024
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2024
  10. Jean-Noël AVILAFeb 22, 2024
  11. Michal SuchánekFeb 22, 2024
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2024
  13. Patrick SteinhardtFeb 21, 2024
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2024
  15. rebase: make warning less passive aggressiveHarmen Stoppels via GitGitGadget, Feb 21, 2024
  16. Patrick SteinhardtFeb 22, 2024
  17. Kristoffer HaugsbakkFeb 22, 2024
  18. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2024

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