Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

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

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Hrm, before we (erm, you) do any extensive work on redoing the glossary, I think we should step back and agree on a direction.

Remember what this thread started with:

} However, an unfortunate and unsatisfactory situation has developed: } Christian Stimming's git-gui de.po uses a Ger translation, and Ralf } Thielow built core git's de.po on top of it, so it's also Ger. } } Meanwhile, and independently, Sven Fuchs and Ralph Haussmann wrote a } translation of pro-git (which is also quite mature at this point, having } apparently begun in 2009), and as you probably guessed by now, it's G+E. } } So that leaves us at a point where "the" libre Git book (and also the } one that happens to be hosted on git-scm.com, the official site) does } not match the terminology used by German git. } } Like, at all. They're not even remotely near each other.

My thinly veiled opinion in the thread starter was that we should redo git's de.po from scratch using a translation similar to pro-git.

I can accept that discussion takes a different turn, and thus the translation does something else. But my impression in the thread so far was that:

* Everyone voted for G+E.

* The thread went of on a tangent, bikeshedding on some Ger
  translations.

Please tell me I'm wrong...

Otherwise, assuming any agreement can be reached, IMHO the first step must be to write/complete a glossary that matches *current usage* in pro-git. We can perhaps bikeshed about some glaring issues in the result, but remember that -- again assuming G+E is the conclusion -- any such change again either means a divergence between book and git (bad!) or a lot of work for the book translators.