From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:03:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 64/73] gettextize: git-describe basic messages
Message-ID: <7vwrkn6rks.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201102261055.58539.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Don't we need to use order notation to be able to change order of those
> two parameters, i.e. use
>
>   +                       warning(_("tag '%1$s' is really '%2$s' here"), n->tag->tag, n->path);

Yes, translators to languages that want to swap orders would need to know
about the placeholder notation; the canonical C locale messages you see in
these patches do not have to have them, though.