From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 21:08:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/65] i18n: archive: mark parseopt strings for translation
Message-ID: <7vfwai3dav.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120529203759.GC22151@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> --- a/archive.c
>>> +++ b/archive.c
>>> @@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
>>>  #include "unpack-trees.h"
>>>  
>>>  static char const * const archive_usage[] = {
>>> -	"git archive [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]",
>>> -	"git archive --list",
>>> -	"git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]",
>>> -	"git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] --list",
>>> +	N_("git archive [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]"),
>>> +	N_("git archive --list"),
>>> +	N_("git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]"),
>>> +	N_("git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] --list"),
>>>  	NULL
>>>  };
>>
>> I can understand the "help" text member of OPT_BLAH() construct, but
>> do we really want to translate the above?
>
> <repo>, <cmd>, [options], <tree-ish>, and <path> may be spelled
> differently in other languages.

OK, fair enough.