From: Tanga Joris <tangajoris@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:04:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [Outreachy PATCH] checkout: use Q_() for the "... and %d more" message
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 at 21:04, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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