Re: [PATCH] remote.c: specify correct plural form in "commit diverge" message

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On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Note that I do not think the singular case can ever trigger with your
> new code. We know that both "ours" and "theirs" are non-zero to get to
> this message, which means "ours + theirs" must be at least 2 (barring
> negative commit counts, of course :) ).
>
> So you could probably replace the Q_() with just a _().

Problem is there are languages with more than one plural form (and the
winner is Arabic with six(!) forms [1]). So even if singular form is
never used, I think we still should stick to Q_().

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural-forms.html
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Duy
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