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Re: [Outreachy PATCH] checkout: use Q_() for the "... and %d more" message

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TJTanga Joris <tangajoris@gmail.com>
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Oct 21, 2026, 21:04 UTC
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 at 21:04, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Is the last sentence worth saying?  I am having a hard time
> imagining who it helps.
>
> Translators of a language that phrases "2 more" and "3 more" the
> same way now have to translate this placeholder twice.  At that
> cost, however, we help translators of languages that need to phrase
> "2 more", "3 more", and "5 more" differently.
>
> That is something we may want to say instead.

This makes sense, and thanks for the review and suggestion. I'll use your explanation of the trade-off in place of that sentence in v2. v2 will also convert "only one reference expected, %d given." in the same file, following Tuomas's suggestion in another thread [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20261021110616.Wxkhc%25taahol@utu.fi/

Thanks, Tanga

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  1. checkout: use Q_() for the "... and %d more" messageTanga Joris, Oct 21, 2026
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2026
  3. Tanga JorisOct 21, 2026
  4. checkout: use Q_() for messages with countsTanga Joris, Oct 22, 2026
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2026

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