From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:52:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] po/de.po: add German translation Message-ID: <7vsk194u6v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4C91FF90.6050902@web.de> Jens Lehmann writes: > Am 16.09.2010 13:09, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:57, Jan Krüger wrote: >> >>> My main reason for not translating this one is that we have a command >>> called "branch" and since people need to learn what it means anyway, >>> and we're certainly not going to change the command names in different >>> languages [...] "Markierung" doesn't come close at all to describing the same >>> concept. Conflicts markers are "Markierungen"; tags are not. >>> The command name reasoning applies here, too. >> >> FWIW we could translate the command names if we wanted to, but whether >> to do that or not is something we'll have to look at in due time. > > Are you seriously thinking about translating the "git branch" command > into "git zweig"??? Locale-specific batch files should be real fun ... Perhaps "dumme zweig"? IOW, shouldn't "git" itself be translated in such a case? People, please stop being ridiculous.