From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:18:29 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/7] i18n: am: mark more strings for translation Message-ID: <7v8ve7daje.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7483bb4c75600ac3ffd4f740040a4256ff70821f.1343227806.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com> Jiang Xin writes: > Mark strings in 'git-am.sh' for translation. In the last chunk, I > changed '$1' to '-b/--binary' for this reason: > > * First, if there is a variable in the l10n message, we could not use > gettext. Because the variable will be expanded (evaluated) and will > never match the entry in the po file. > > * Second, if there is a positional parameter ($1, $2,...) in the > message, we could not use eval_gettext either. Because eval_gettext > may be a wapper for gettext, and the positional parameter would > lose its original context. > > Also reduce one indentation level for one gettextln clause introduced > in commit de88c1c. > > Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin > Reviewed-by: Stefano Lattarini > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder Thanks. I've reworded the rationale for -b/--binary, though, as the above sounds as if we are clueless as to how to i18n this message properly even if we wanted to, which is not the case. Mark strings in 'git-am.sh' for translation. In the last chunk, change '$1' to '-b/--binary', as it is not worth turning this message to "The %s option has been..." and using printf on it.