Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date: May 15, 2013, 11:56 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1305151351130.20281@nerf07.vanv.qr>
In-Reply-To: <519370D3.3000306@web.de>

On Wednesday 2013-05-15 13:26, Jens Lehmann wrote:

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>Hmm, I rather tend towards using "Repository" instead of "Archiv" too, as
>"Archiv" can mean anything from a tar-file to a git repository

It's exactly the reasoning I made in my git-glossary.txt sample (of which the reasoning apparently has not made it into ralfth's latest wiki, but that's the most essential part of a glossary IMHO).

>but I believe "Packdatei" would be a much better translation (especially as
>the translation of "pack(verb)" is "packen"). I find it natural that a file
>with the extension ".pack" is named Packdatei

While it's spoken Packdatei, the way to actually write it is .pack-Datei or ".pack"-Datei.

>extension ".zip" is a "Zipdatei" (known by the Duden)

If that's how Duden specifies it, it's time to call wrong upon Duden. It's ZIP-Datei, of course, and follows the same origin (".zip"-Datei). The history of "ZIP-Datei" can be explained by way of MSDOS showing the filename in the DIR command without the dot - which is also why we do not pronounce the dot in ".zip"- or ".pack"-Datei.

>Yup, im my experience "committen" (to commit), "einchecken" (to check in),
>"auschecken" (to check out) und "taggen" (to tag) made it into our daily
>German language use. To avoid e.g. having past tenses look strange (like
>"committet")

Not so strange. We have other words with -tet. bitten -> erbittete -> habe erbittet.