Re: German translation of git man pages

From: Fabio Scotoni <fabio@esse.ch>
Date: Jul 30, 2008, 14:05 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0807301604010.4094@hydra.esse.ch>

Hello,

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:25 +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote:

> The glossary may also be a good help:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=git-gui/po/glossary/de.po

I think we should follow this Glossary. Git-gui users should not be forced to learn again. Learning git is already enough work.

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 13:18 +0200, David Soria Parra wrote:

> You might want to provide a public repository, which we can pull from
> and send you patches.

Of course. Here it is: git://repo.or.cz/srv/git/gitman-de.git
(You may blame me now for using a public repository.)
I did create the mob user ( http://repo.or.cz/mob.html ) and it's
branch. Pushing only over ssh.
I used the repository of git from yesterday.
The only translated file at the moment is gittutorial-de.txt.
Every file without -de at its end is the original English file.
DO NOT MODIFY them.
If files with -de at their end have English passages or are completely
English means, they haven't been translated.
Note: You should fix any Eszett errors, I'm Swiss, so i was unable to
insert any Eszetts.

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 13:06 +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

> A good translation will translate those words.  However, since the
> commandline interface uses the English words, you'll be forced to
> re-explain that relationship a lot of times (using parenthesis, most
> likely).

I think we should avoid this. It just makes the text more unclear and harder to understand. Instead, we should provide something like "gitglossary-de.1", so interested users can look up our translations of English words.

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 11:21 +0000, Mark Struberg wrote:

> (Reminds me of some old Siemens BS2000 mainfraims back in the 80s.
> They translated really ALL terms to german, which was frankly
> completely unreadable)

Yes, I exactly know what you mean and I would like to keep some terms, but they were translated to German and so I feel forced to copy the glossary of git-gui.

With best regards, Fabio Scotoni