Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] docs(l10n): AI agent instructions and workflow improvements

From: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2026, 04:37 UTC
Message-ID: <CANYiYbG9i9FcYCPbhS_DyhubEPJKjfxkL=wmYFLMiBc8+HdM_A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfr5g4qjb.fsf@gitster.g>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 11:38 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The l10n window for Git 2.54 will open soon. I will merge at least
> > patch 1/5 ("l10n: add .gitattributes to simplify location filtering")
> > into my tree. The new GitHub Actions workflow already supports checks
> > based on the filter attribute.
> >
> > As for patches 2/5 through 5/5, would they also be appropriate to
> > merge during this l10n window?
>
> Up to you.  I didn't find anything questionable in these patches,
> but the area the patches touch is in your bailiwick and ultimately
> it is your call.
>

I tried using AI assistance on top of the current master branch to complete the translation of po/zh_CN.po, and translated a total of 177 entries. I also used AI-assisted review, which gave the result a score of 98/100.

    🔍 Review Report
      Review score:          98/100
      Total entries:         177
      Perfect (no issue):    170
      With issues:           7
      Critical (score 0):    1
      Major (score 1):       3
      Minor (score 2):       3
      Applied PO:            po/review-output.po
      Report JSON:           po/review-result.json

    For full review details, see the report JSON file

Manual inspection found that in multiple translations, the placeholder order had not actually been changed, yet positional syntax (%n$) was still used unnecessarily. These cases needed to be fixed one by one by hand. I will update AGENTS.md later to reduce the chance of this kind of unnecessary positional syntax appearing again.

    @@ -8980,7 +8981,7 @@ msgid ""
     "Unable to create '%s': %s.\n"
     "\n"
     msgstr ""
    -"无法创建‘%1$s’：%2$s。\n"
    +"无法创建‘%s’：%s。\n"
     "\n"

     #: lockfile.c
    @@ -14663,7 +14664,7 @@ msgstr "无法打开文件 '%s'"
     #: fetch-pack.c
     #, c-format
     msgid "couldn't resolve 'auto' filter '%s': %s"
    -msgstr "无法解析 ‘auto’ 过滤器‘%1$s’：%2$s"
    +msgstr "无法解析 ‘auto’ 过滤器‘%s’：%s"

Overall, AI provides very significant efficiency gains for l10n work.