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Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

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HIHolger Hellmuth (IKS) <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
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May 22, 2013, 15:52 UTC
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Am 22.05.2013 17:16, schrieb Ralf Thielow:
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>>>      hunk               = Bereich
>>
>> IMHO "Kontext" is better if you use a German word. Technically the context is
>> something else, but in a German text IMHO it fits nicer when explaining to the
>> user where he/she can select the n-th hunk.
>>
>
> Not sure if German users would know what "hunk" means, in case we
> leave it untranslated. And I'm not sure if I would understand "Kontext".
> I tend to leave it untranslated.

I don't think "Bereich" is a bad choice. As "hunk" is not a word with special meaning in cvs and not used in any commands I don't see a lot of reasons to keep it in english.

Alternative translations might be "Teilbereich", "Dateibereich". "Kontext" would be very confusing IMHO

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  5. Jan EngelhardtMay 13, 2013
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  7. Holger Hellmuth (IKS)May 15, 2013
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  13. Jan EngelhardtMay 15, 2013
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  22. Ralf ThielowMay 19, 2013
  23. Christian StimmingMay 20, 2013
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  25. Holger Hellmuth (IKS)May 22, 2013
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  31. Ralf ThielowMay 13, 2013
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