Re: [PATCH] git gui spanish translation.

From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Feb 8, 2010, 08:44 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002080941040.28237@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <1265229474.23299.15.camel@varda>

Hi!

Some general translation comments (I don't particularly know about Spanish).

Alejandro Riveira Fernández:

> I'm open to sugestions. the same problem with "commit" (either verb or
> noun) tracking branch, push ( propagar is ok? ) etc...

For my translation, I used the translated versions of "check-in" (as in to check-in to a flight) for "commit", for "branch" I used the same word as for a branch on a tree, and for "push", I translated as "send". If you can't find a direct translation, finding a simpler synonym in English is usually a good way to go.

Also do check if there are translated GUIs for other version control software, and try to be consistent with them.

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>> I'm not sure what the standard translation of EOF is, but seeing as it 
>> stands for "End Of File" it wouldn't surprise me if there is something 
>> similar in Spanish like "FDA" (Fin De Archivo) or something similar...?
>
> I think people use the EOF just like they use NULL or cd-rom or many other 
> neologism

If there is doubt, it is usually better to spell it out, possibly keeping the original abbreviation (such as writing "EOF (end of file)", with "end of file" translated).

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