Re: git status: minor output format error

From: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 4, 2013, 07:53 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0XMOK3NqcAyk5c246+CCDZETxGfsZ_AxbBEmUC0RX9aXW8mw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DyX-cxJNYe3HXeb8e96O36h4aEJrBo+P5035b-vuz0hw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Wolfgang Rohdewald
> <wolfgang@rohdewald.de> wrote:
>> git version 1.8.3.2
>>
>> git status in German says (extract)
>>
>> #       geändert:   kajongg.py
>> #       gelöscht:    playfield.py
>>
>> as you can see, there is one space too much before playfield.py
>>
>> LANG=C git status is correct:
>> #       modified:   kajongg.py
>> #       deleted:    playfield.py
>>
>> so it seems the spacing between the columns expects "deleted" to have the same number
>> of letters in all languages.
>
> No, the translations control the number of columns in this case
> (although it's not very intuitive for translators). Something like
> this may fix it. I haven't tested because I don't have "de" locale
> installed.
>
> diff --git a/po/de.po b/po/de.po
> index 35a44b9..d1846d2 100644
> --- a/po/de.po
> +++ b/po/de.po
> @@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ msgstr "kopiert:     %s -> %s"
>  #: wt-status.c:313
>  #, c-format
>  msgid "deleted:    %s"
> -msgstr "gelöscht:    %s"
> +msgstr "gelöscht:   %s"
>

The columns don't match in other related messages, either. Let's see what happens with [1].

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/237283

>  #: wt-status.c:316
>  #, c-format
> --
> Duy