Re: gitk translate msg files not installed correctly

From: mha1993@live.de <mha1993@live.de>
Date: Aug 18, 2021, 18:11 UTC
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2021, yan ke wrote:

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> Hi all,
> I found a problem with the gitk translation msg file in windows, the
> details are below:
> 1. The default gitk msg dir in windows is
> [git_install_dir]\mingw64\share\gitk\lib\msgs, but the install process
> does not install gitk msgs, no that dir exists
> 2. I use innoextract to unpack the git windows install
> file(Git-2.33.0-64-bit.exe ), and I find that the gitk translate msg
> files are not in the package ,is this correct?
>

Yes, Git for Windows intentionally doesn't ship l10n files [1]. There have been a few requests for installers with l10n in 2015 [2][3][4][5][6] and 2016 [7][8], but not much ever happened there. The Git for Windows installer can be built with l10n [9], but that doesn't seem to currently include the files for gitk or git-gui.

[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/commit/ed79a9d8206cea8055e5226af068db700e0d6fc8 [2] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/378 [3] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/386 [4] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/403 [5] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/496 [6] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/584 [7] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/648 [8] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/724 [9] https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/commit/f54833da8b71fc6f55e120881c891cd7ae5f530d

> So I think the gitk translation in windows does not work correctly, or
> something i find is wrong?
>