Re: [PATCH] Revert diffstat back to English

> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 02:26:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> 
>> > I do not think they are incompatible if you separate it into three
>> > categories: machine readable (must never be translated), for the current
>> > user right now (current i18n), and for sharing with other humans
>> > (i18n.projectlang).
>> 
>> Anything you see as a user is potentially useful to other project
>> participants, so I do not think there is a bright line that
>> delineates the latter two classes.  The output of format-patch is
>> obviously meant as the latter, but how about the output from show or
>> log?  Is it worth trying to define the bright line somewhere, only
>> to annoy users who may want to draw the line differently?
>
> I agree that the line is not bright. I do not know if it is worthwhile
> or not. I think it will solve some practical problems, but it may also
> introduce others.  But basically having a per-repo LANG setting (which
> is what the projectlang you are talking about would do) also does not
> seem like a solution that people will use, because they will not get any
> localization benefit at all.
>
> So again, I'd rather err on the side of pushing those things that are
> near the line into the "do not translate" side, letting people use LANG
> to localize the rest, and accepting that occasionally people are going
> to accidentally show you output in a language you don't understand. But
> hopefully that keeps it to "occasionally" and not "every time you send
> out a patch".