From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 05:27:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/65] i18n: archive: mark parseopt strings for translation
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Dg-M+3+_LWksq4fYHq3Tx96bQEDYkHApMj8+d=5wqqjQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120529203759.GC22151@burratino>

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> --- a/archive.c
>>> +++ b/archive.c
>>> @@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
>>>  #include "unpack-trees.h"
>>>
>>>  static char const * const archive_usage[] = {
>>> -    "git archive [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]",
>>> -    "git archive --list",
>>> -    "git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]",
>>> -    "git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] --list",
>>> +    N_("git archive [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]"),
>>> +    N_("git archive --list"),
>>> +    N_("git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]"),
>>> +    N_("git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] --list"),
>>>      NULL
>>>  };
>>
>> I can understand the "help" text member of OPT_BLAH() construct, but
>> do we really want to translate the above?
>
> <repo>, <cmd>, [options], <tree-ish>, and <path> may be spelled
> differently in other languages.  Would it be possible to take care
> of this kind of substitution automatically?

not for the "[<path>...]" part

> At least "git archive --list" should probably be kept untranslated
> to lessen the translator workload a bit.  Good catch.

I use po-mode and for strings that no change is required like this,
simply C-j to copy as-is after a glance.
-- 
Duy