Re: [PATCH] l10n: it.po: fix italian usage messages alignment

From: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 26, 2026, 03:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CANYiYbE1qTFYLEyhAR3SEyXozFnEMPxyj=3dAh-vmHkpXZnMpw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20260422182516.26667-2-beniamino@beniamino.eu>

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 2:25 AM Matteo Beniamino <beniamino@beniamino.eu> wrote:

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> Fixed a misalignment in the "usage:" and "   or:" lines in the italian
> help messages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Beniamino <beniamino@beniamino.eu>
> ---
>  po/it.po | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/po/it.po b/po/it.po
> index 20fd8bb28d..b5ccd8c731 100644
> --- a/po/it.po
> +++ b/po/it.po
> @@ -5400,7 +5400,7 @@ msgstr "uso: %s"
>  #: parse-options.c:915
>  #, c-format
>  msgid "   or: %s"
> -msgstr "  oppure: %s"
> +msgstr "  o: %s"

An example of the original English output for a command with multiple usage lines:

    $ LC_ALL=C git checkout -h | head -2
    usage: git checkout [<options>] <branch>
       or: git checkout [<options>] [<branch>] -- <file>...

The current Italian translation does not achieve colon alignment:

    $ LC_ALL=it  git checkout -h | head -2
    uso: git checkout [<opzioni>] <branch>
      oppure: git checkout [<opzioni>] [<branch>] -- <file>...

Your change fixes the alignment issue, producing the following output:

    $ LC_ALL=it  git checkout -h | head -2
    uso: git checkout [<opzioni>] <branch>
      o: git checkout [<opzioni>] [<branch>] -- <file>...

Another possible alignment solution for the Italian output would be:

    $ LC_ALL=it  git checkout -h | head -2
       uso: git checkout [<opzioni>] <branch>
    oppure: git checkout [<opzioni>] [<branch>] -- <file>...

Obviously, your solution is better, because for commands with only a single usage line, such as "git clone -h", no leading spaces will be shown — i.e., it displays "uso: ..." instead of " uso: ...".

Git localization follows a GitHub-based workflow; please refer to the "po/README.md" file for details. This change can be submitted as a Pull Request to the "git-l10n/git-po" repository, and will be merged once the next Git localization window opens. If you have additional changes to the Italian translation, please refer to the "po/TEAMS file", contact the Italian localization leader Alessandro Menti, and submit a pull request to his repository.

-- Jiang Xin