From: Peter Krefting Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:02:03 GMT Subject: Re: translation difficulties :: revision and commit Message-ID: 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 :-) -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/