Re: translation difficulties :: revision and commit

From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Apr 28, 2011, 09:02 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1104281058560.7540@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <1303934784.25134.74.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

Drew Northup:

>> For Swedish, I used a translation of "check-in" (as when checking in at an
>> airport) for "commit", both in the verb and noun forms.

> If you seek to avoid SVN-isms I suggest thinking about the
> deconstruction of "commit" in the context we are using it:

I don't know much about Subversionisms, never really having used Subversion (but I have used CVS extensively, so I am a bit damaged), so I cannot comment on that.

> "to commit the current state of the working directory as known by Git to 
> the recorded history."

The problem, at least for Swedish, is that if I want to translate that sentence, finding a good word to replace "commit" is very difficult, even when it is used properly like this. Some things just don't translate very well into other languages.

> So far as the language element is concerned, it could have been chosen to 
> be a "flubberbudget" and provided nobody attempted suggesting to Linus 
> that he'd be insane for calling it that it would have had a decent chance 
> of staying that way. ;-)

Speaking of Linus, his native tounge is the same as mine, so I will let him have the power to override my Swedish translation of Git & co, if he sees fit :-)

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