Re: [RFC/PATCH] l10n: de.po: correct translation of a 'rebase' message

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Sep 24, 2012, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <87k3vjtbf7.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1348508389-2883-1-git-send-email-ralf.thielow@gmail.com>

Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> writes:

> Noticed-by: Sascha Cunz <sascha-ml@babbelbox.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>

[...]

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> The English original is:
>
> "It seems that there is already a $state_dir_base directory, and\n"
> "I wonder if you are in the middle of another rebase.  If that is the\n"
> "case, please try\n"
> "\t$cmd_live_rebase\n"
> "If that is not the case, please\n"
> "\t$cmd_clear_stale_rebase\n"
> "and run me again.  I am stopping in case you still have something\n"
> "valuable there."

[...]

> -"Es scheint so, als gäbe es das Verzeichnis $state_dir_base bereits, und\n"
> -"es wäre verwunderlich, wenn ein Neuaufbau bereits im Gange ist. Wenn das\n"
> -"der Fall ist, probiere bitte\n"
> +"Es sieht so aus, als gibt es das Verzeichnis $state_dir_base bereits\n"

Not very elegant yet, shouldn't it say something like

  als ob es das Verzeichnis ... bereits {gibt,gäbe}

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> +"und es könnte ein anderer Neuaufbau im Gange sein. Wenn das der Fall ist,\n"
> +"probiere bitte\n"
>  "\t$cmd_live_rebase\n"
>  "Wenn das nicht der Fall ist, probiere bitte\n"
>  "\t$cmd_clear_stale_rebase\n"
> -"und führe dieses Kommando nochmal aus. Es wird angehalten, falls bereits\n"
> -"etwas Nützliches vorhanden ist."
> +"und führe dieses Kommando nochmal aus. Es wird angehalten, falls noch\n"
> +"etwas Schützenswertes vorhanden ist."

Thanks Ralf and Sascha.

Please don't see this as a reason to fight the (i.e. Ralf's, for the most part) translation. It is definitely a mistake, but not any more so than any other bug. In fact, it went through review here

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/202784

where I too (sorry) missed this, even as I pointed out several other things. Then it went into the pull request

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/203153

So for me the main take-away is that just like with code, review helps catch some things early but bugs still get through. More eyeballs would certainly be appreciated.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch