On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>> --- a/archive.c
>>> +++ b/archive.c
>>> @@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
>>> #include "unpack-trees.h"
>>>
>>> static char const * const archive_usage[] = {
>>> - "git archive [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]",
>>> - "git archive --list",
>>> - "git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]",
>>> - "git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] --list",
>>> + N_("git archive [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]"),
>>> + N_("git archive --list"),
>>> + N_("git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]"),
>>> + N_("git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] --list"),
>>> NULL
>>> };
>>
>> I can understand the "help" text member of OPT_BLAH() construct, but
>> do we really want to translate the above?
>
> <repo>, <cmd>, [options], <tree-ish>, and <path> may be spelled
> differently in other languages. Would it be possible to take care
> of this kind of substitution automatically?
not for the "[<path>...]" part
> At least "git archive --list" should probably be kept untranslated
> to lessen the translator workload a bit. Good catch.
I use po-mode and for strings that no change is required like this,
simply C-j to copy as-is after a glance.
--
Duy
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