Re: [PATCH] Update Russian translation of git gui

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 27, 2009, 09:25 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0904270225m1762dd1l2ef60253e556b8c9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090427091047.GC15723@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

2009/4/27 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:

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> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:21:40PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
>> I also changed translation of the word 'tag': the old term was just a
>> transliteration. There is a russian word with a fitting meaning and
>> it is even used.
>
> таг (which was used before) is certainly incorrect, but both "тег" and
> "метка" are widely used in Russian. Though "тег" may be considered as
> computer slang, so "метка" is better for formal documentation...

My thinking exactly.

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>> -#: git-gui.sh:932
>> +#: git-gui.sh:1076
>>  msgid "Cannot use funny .git directory:"
>>  msgstr "Каталог.git испорчен: "
> ------------------^
>
> Missing space before dot.
>

Oops...

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>> -#: git-gui.sh:1644
>> +#: git-gui.sh:1878
>>  msgid "Starting gitk... please wait..."
>>  msgstr "Запускается gitk... пожалуйста, ждите..."
>
> s/ждите/подождите/
>
> "ждите" sounds somewhat impolite here...
>

Well, it is impolite to make people wait. You can as well stop pretending :) I'll change that, too.

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>> -#: git-gui.sh:1888
>> +#: git-gui.sh:2316
>>  msgid "Visualize Current Branch's History"
>>  msgstr "История текущей ветви наглядно"
>
> The Russian phrase lacks of the verb and the added adverb at the end
> does not make much sense to me, so I would re-write the sentence as:
>
> "Показать историю текущей ветви"
>

Much better. I'll change that and the others.

>> +msgstr "Звершено"
>
> spelling: "Завершено"
>

Oops.

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>> -#: git-gui.sh:2064
>> +#: git-gui.sh:2518
>>  msgid "Local Merge..."
>>  msgstr "Локальное объединение..."
>
> "слияние" is a more common term for "merge" in Russian computer
> literature though "объединение" is probably okay...
>

Ah, that's how it's called. Frankly, I just didn't know. Will change.

Thank you very much for proofreading!