On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> - Nit: you nicely use "%d commit%s" to handle the single/plural case >> in the warning message, but then you "them" later on. It needs >> (1 < lost) ? "them" : "it". > > I actually don't like playing games like that, especially when i18n topic > is in flight. Among the languages I know rules reasonably well, two has > the rule that a countable noun is spelled differently depending on the > number of that thing is one or more, and one spells the noun the same way > regardless of the number. Who knows if git needs to be translated into a > language whose noun changes its shape three-way, depending on the number > being one, two, or more? For gettex this is described at http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Plural-forms Don't know how it's handled in shell scripts or perl or whatever other language (which does not use gettext?) -- Piotrek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html