From: Holger Hellmuth (IKS) <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:52:10 GMT
Subject: Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git
Message-ID: <519CE9AA.9010502@ira.uka.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAN0XMOK4oniunZz5KpC1x=JrY4yH4HnecxMSCyPF+kEyYRRjTw@mail.gmail.com>

Am 22.05.2013 17:16, schrieb Ralf Thielow:
>>>      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