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Re: [RFC/PATCH] Replace filepattern with pathspec for consistency

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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Feb 12, 2013, 17:06 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> The strings that are fed to _() would be updated with your patch,
> but the replacement will stay to be "filepattern" translated to the
> target language.  Translators have to actively hunt for the messages
> to update them.  If you left the .po files untouched, they would
> notice when git.pot is updated the next time and that will ensure
> that the affected messages get translated, no?

Right, and I'm not competent to say how filepattern was translated in any of the languages. Let me know if you want a resend without the po/ part.

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