Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> What I am wondering is if we can do something
> like this:
> ...
Nah, that is a lot more stupid than just doing
> In code:
>
> blame_date_width = strtoul(_("4 years, 11 months ago"), NULL, 10) + 1;
>
> In git.pot:
>
> #. This string is used to tell us the maximum display width for a
> #. relative timestamp in "git blame" output. For C locale, "4 years,
> #. 11 months ago", which takes 22 places, is the longest among various
> #. forms of relative timestamps, but your language may need more or
> #. fewer display columns.
> msgid "4 years, 11 months ago"
> msgstr ""
>
> In de.po:
> #. This string is used to tell us the maximum display width for a
> #. relative timestamp in "git blame" output. For C locale, "4 years,
> #. 11 months ago", which takes 22 places, is the longest among various
> #. forms of relative timestamps, but your language may need more or
> #. fewer display columns.
> msgid "4 years, 11 months ago"
> msgstr ""vor 4 Jahren, und 11 Monaten"
which is essentially how your very original looked like (modulo the
comments). So let's not try to be clever or cute, and just have a
good instruction in the TRANSLATORS comments.
Sorry for flipping and flopping on this one.
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