From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:33:47 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk : french translation
Message-ID: <vpqtyx5nql0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20091107025439.GC13724@vidovic>

Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr> writes:

>> > - make some consistency changes
>> >  * s/diff/différences/
>> >  * s/patch/correctif/ everywhere
>
> I disagree here. Words like "diff", "commit", "patch", etc should be
> kept as is. Translation of those terms make things harder for the users.

Metoo.

One day or another, the user will have to face the words "diff",
"commit" and "patch" even in a 100% french-speaking context (for
example when requesting help and someone answering "open a terminal
and type 'git commit --whatever'" or so).

Matching the command-line concepts and the GUI concepts is made really
hard by over-translating.

(and BTW, "correctif" is not a very good translation of "patch", since
a patch is not necessarilly a correction of something).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/