Re: Has anyone looked at Gettext support for Git itself?

> Note that "non-english-speaking" here really means "requiring or badly
> wanting translated git". There are many non-native speakers here, and
> your following reasoning
> 
>> It may also be worth mentioning that a git "commit", for example,
>> doesn't have anything (other than historical reasons) to do with the
>> English word "commit". A git commit is a git commit, and perhaps such
>> conceptual terms should best be left untranslated anyway. It would
>> certainly make it easier to answer questions in #git if people continued
>> to use the same terms everywhere. Just as a weak anecdotal argument,
>> when someone uses the term "revision" in #git, there's generally a lack
>> of understanding about what a "commit" is. "commit" means something very
>> specific in git, and I would hesitate to try to translate that into
>> another language as if it's just a synonym for "revision" or
>> "checkpoint", or "transaction", etc
> 
> explains why many non-native speakers prefer an English git. When
> confronted with the localised German git-gui for the first time, I
> really did not understand the menu entries at all. And my German is
> pretty good ;)