From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:22:29 GMT
Subject: Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.10.9.1306162320560.30428@nerf07.vanv.qr>
In-Reply-To: <20130523181615.GB3270@client.brlink.eu>


On Thursday 2013-05-23 20:16, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
>>
>> Not sure if German users would know what "hunk" means, in case we
>> leave it untranslated. And I'm not sure if I would understand "Kontext".
>> I tend to leave it untranslated.
>
>Anyone found a German translation of the Patch manpage? Translating the
>English word-play here, I'd suggest "Block" or "Patch-Block".

Hunk is like a chunk, and the dictionary offers some fun too:

dickes Stück; Brocken {m} :: chunk
(Holz)klotz {m} :: chunk (of wood)

and that is what many patches feel like indeed, especially
when they generate rejects :)