Re: l10n: the maintaince of git-po repo

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 29, 2012, 05:34 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1upew6d0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CANYiYbGS_cFTHT1Pkafi9dmzedqezTq8k1tPkYur0b2St_c43Q@mail.gmail.com>

Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm looking forward to the next git release with Chinese l10n, so that
> I can start to rewrite my book on Git. ;-)

For people who don't know, Jiang kindly sent me an autographed copy of his book https://plus.google.com/u/0/108182106411180467879/posts/XX2CewgxSAb I can only read the command examples, but the book seems to have a good coverage of modern Git, judging from the table of contents.

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> The maintaince of the git-po and git-po-zh_CN repositories so far:
>
> git-po repository
> -----------------
> Location   : https://github.com/gotgit/git-po
> Fork from  : https://github.com/git/git
> Description: This is the Git l10n master repo, and is used to coordinate
>              works of l10n teams. L10n team leaders send pull requests
>              to this repo, while other l10n contributors should wok on
>              the language specified repository created by the l10n team
>              leader.

Thanks.  I took a look.

I'll comment on the changes as if they came in the patch form here, to ask for sanity checks from the list members.

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>  Makefile      |    1 -
>  po/.gitignore |    1 -
>  po/git.pot    | 3494 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  po/zh_CN.po   | 3671 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 7165 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 po/git.pot
>  create mode 100644 po/zh_CN.po
> 
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index cf2c40b..be1957a 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -2635,7 +2635,6 @@ dist-doc:
>  
>  distclean: clean
>  	$(RM) configure
> -	$(RM) po/git.pot
>  
>  profile-clean:
>  	$(RM) $(addsuffix *.gcda,$(addprefix $(PROFILE_DIR)/, $(object_dirs)))

The file is no longer a generated file but is tracked, and should not be removed upon distclean. Good.

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> diff --git a/po/.gitignore b/po/.gitignore
> index 4caa631..796b96d 100644
> --- a/po/.gitignore
> +++ b/po/.gitignore
> @@ -1,2 +1 @@
> -/git.pot
>  /build

Likewise, it is not ignored anymore. Good.

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> diff --git a/po/git.pot b/po/git.pot
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..efcda39
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/po/git.pot
> @@ -0,0 +1,3494 @@
> +# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
> +# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
> +# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.

Should the above placeholder lines left as they are, or should they be updated to name "Git" as the "PACKAGE" with "SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE"?

If the answer is "latter", I think we would need to apply a similar update to po/git-gui.pot for git-gui package.

On the other hand, I think the placeholder lines below should stay as they are.

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> +# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
> +#
> +#, fuzzy
> +msgid ""
> +msgstr ""
> +"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
> +"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>\n"
> +"POT-Creation-Date: 2012-02-28 09:17+0800\n"
> +"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
> +"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
> +"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
> +"Language: \n"
> +"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
> +"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
> +"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
> +"Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"
> +
> +#: advice.c:34
> +#, c-format
> +msgid "hint: %.*s\n"
> +msgstr ""
> ...