Re: [PATCH 1/2] po/de.po: add German translation

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Sep 16, 2010, 11:29 UTC
Message-ID: <4C91FF90.6050902@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikvW=YY2X9VR8oS2pk3fs9KFkQ_O7m=zOEN4nEk@mail.gmail.com>

Am 16.09.2010 13:09, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:

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> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:57, Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> wrote:
> 
>> My main reason for not translating this one is that we have a command
>> called "branch" and since people need to learn what it means anyway,
>> and we're certainly not going to change the command names in different
>> languages [...] "Markierung" doesn't come close at all to describing the same
>> concept. Conflicts markers are "Markierungen"; tags are not.
>> The command name reasoning applies here, too.
> 
> FWIW we could translate the command names if we wanted to, but whether
> to do that or not is something we'll have to look at in due time.

Are you seriously thinking about translating the "git branch" command into "git zweig"??? Locale-specific batch files should be real fun ...