From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:10:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] ref-filter: make %(upstream:track) prints "[gone]" for invalid upstreams
Message-ID: <vpqvbadz37a.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLa=ZRvTUpz2Ey9ZLwe_iqVGPaFZGJ2_HiASpn=txAgV57otg@mail.gmail.com>

Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:

> A little blurry on how this works, as in how translation takes place,
> probably need to look at some code.

What you really need to understand is: _("foo") is translated, "foo" is
not and will always be "foo". Technically, _ is a macro, it could be
called get_the_translated_string_for(...) but that would be too long.

In git, _("foo") should be used when talking to a user (porcelain), and
"foo" when talking to a program (plumbing). This way a user running

git <plumbing-command> | grep "some-plumbing-message"

will always get the same result regardless of the current locale.

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