Re: [PATCH v2] l10n: de.po: translate 41 new messages

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: May 31, 2012, 09:56 UTC
Message-ID: <87zk8o3c8v.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1338412586-12116-1-git-send-email-ralf.thielow@googlemail.com>

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

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> +#. TRANSLATORS: the colon here should align with the
> +#. one in "usage: %s" translation
> +#: parse-options.c:515
> +#, c-format
> +msgid "   or: %s"
> +msgstr "      oder: %s"
> +
> +#: parse-options.c:518
> +#, c-format
> +msgid "    %s"
> +msgstr "    %s"

On IRC I indicated that this might be intended to line up with the " or: %s" snippet. This was a false alarm; it indents followup material, as in

$ git blame -h usage: git blame [options] [rev-opts] [rev] [--] file

    [rev-opts] are documented in git-rev-list(1)

    --incremental         Show blame entries as we find them, incrementally
[snip]

> +#: builtin/apply.c:3974
> +msgid "instead of applying the patch, output diffstat for the input"
> +msgstr "anstatt der Anwendung des Patches, wird die Differenz für die Eingabe "
> +"ausgegeben"

diffstat has no precedent, so we get to bikeshed (yay). I added a placeholder to your glossary. (I also added some other diff-related terms.) My current best suggestion, sadly, is "diffstat" simply because it matches the option name.

> +#: builtin/apply.c:4000 builtin/apply.c:4003
> +msgid "ignore changes in whitespace when finding context"
> +msgstr "ignoriert Änderungen in Leerzeichen bei der Suche des Kontextes"

I interpret "Leerzeichen" as being (specifically) the ASCII space character. Is it just me? Otherwise I suggest we find a more general translation for whitespace.

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>  #: builtin/index-pack.c:458
>  msgid "delta base offset is out of bound"
> -msgstr "Wert für Versatz bei Differenzobjekt liegt außerhalb des gültigen "
> -"Bereichs"
> +msgstr ""
> +"Wert für Versatz bei Differenzobjekt liegt außerhalb des gültigen Bereichs"

This is a case where I really wonder how useful a translation is. The user won't be any wiser (just as with the English one), the developers will just grep de.po for the "real" message to look for :-)

> +#: parse-options.h:156
> +msgid "no-op (backward compatibility)"
> +msgstr "Keine Operation (Rückwärtskompatibilität)"

"Kein Effekt" might be less confusing?

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