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Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/5] glossary: introduce glossary lookup command

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Dec 11, 2014, 20:06 UTC
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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
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>> I wondered if we want to also have the associated documentation in
>> response to a query, but I am not sure how well that would go
>> without having a translated glossary at least.  I.e. pulling the
>
> Yes, I think we would need something different then. The glossary
> entries are asciidoc which we can't format easily from the glossary
> command. I really think of the glossary command as being orthogonal to
> the definitory glossary. I guess I should name it "translate" instead.
> ...
>
>> original from glossary-content.txt would produce something like
>> this:
>> 
>> 	$ LANG=de git glossary -l blob object
>>         Blob-Objekten
>> 	Untyped <<def_object,object>>, e.g. the contents of a file.
>> 
>> which is not ideal.

I didn't mean the AsciiDoc part, though. I meant that the contents are not in LANG=de, which is not ideal. So translating "blob object" to whatever it is called in LANG=de, without the description, is the best we can do without having a translated documentation set.

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  1. 0/5 git-glossaryMichael J Gruber, Dec 8, 2014
  2. 1/5 glossary.h: generate a glossary list from the MakefileMichael J Gruber, Dec 8, 2014
  3. 2/5 glossary: introduce glossary lookup commandMichael J Gruber, Dec 8, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2014
  5. Michael J GruberDec 11, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2014
  7. 3/5 glossary: man pageMichael J Gruber, Dec 8, 2014
  8. 4/5 l10n: git-glossaryMichael J Gruber, Dec 8, 2014
  9. Michael J GruberDec 8, 2014
  10. Christian CouderDec 8, 2014
  11. Michael J GruberDec 8, 2014

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