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Re: How to run git-gui always in English?

From
Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Oct 26, 2007, 08:00 UTC
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Steffen Prohaska:
> There are a lot of efforts going on to localize git-gui, including 
> technical terms like "push". Personally I don't understand what this 
> should be useful for. The command is called "git push"s. So, why should it 
> be named differently in the gui.

Not that I agree that "push" is a technical word, but perhaps you have a point. Why should there be such words in the GUI to start with? It's a GUI, trying to abstract away the command line. Why not have a button "Send" or a menu entry "Send changes to server", mimicing the "git push" command line option? Using command line names or showing protocol data directly in a user-oriented GUI is most often a bad idea.

Or perhaps what we need is an actual translation from "gitish" to English, which would have

msgid "Push" msgstr "Send changes to server"

?
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  1. Steffen ProhaskaOct 21, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceOct 21, 2007
  3. Steffen ProhaskaOct 21, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceOct 21, 2007
  5. Steffen ProhaskaOct 23, 2007
  6. Shawn O. PearceOct 23, 2007
  7. Peter KarlssonOct 26, 2007
  8. Alex RiesenOct 26, 2007
  9. Peter KarlssonOct 29, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinOct 30, 2007

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