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Re: Glossary for bootstrapping Git translations

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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Apr 30, 2012, 14:20 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 13:29, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2012/4/30 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>:
>> I think having something like this in po/GLOSSARY or in a similar
>> location would be very useful to get new translators started. I'm
>> CC-ing the other translation leads so they can look the English core
>> terms I've come up with over, and suggest new ones.
>
> Just checking. Have you looked at Documentation/glossary-content.txt?
> That and this glossary may not be exactly the same, but you should be
> able to copy some terms from there (e.g. pathspec), or even add some
> back.
I hadn't seen it recently. I think I'll incorporate some things from it.

In practice translators don't have to worry about many of those terms, so I think there's some value in having another document for terms they need to get straight to get a translation started.

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