Re: [PATCH] status: display the SHA1 of the commit being currently processed

From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Jun 17, 2013, 13:54 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1306171452340.7683@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <c878cf98bff28ea8b72fb6d33fd9ca85@ensibm.imag.fr>

Mathieu Liénard--Mayor:

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> Actually, at first I dealt with it this way:
>
> status_printf_ln(s, color,
>                 _("Splitting %s while rebasing branch '%s' on '%s'."),
> 		 stopped_sha ? stopped_sha : _("a commit"),
> 		 ....);
>
> Would this be more suitable for translators ?

Not really, the text surrounding "a commit" might need to be inflected differently depending on whether it is a SHA-1 or the "a commit" string. Word order might also be different.

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