Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 11:07:25PM -0600, Alex Henrie wrote:
>
>> These commands have no placeholders to be translated.
>
> I think this is the right thing to do, but your commit message made me
> pause for a second. When you say "placeholders", I think you mean %s,
> etc. And yes there aren't any here, but that is not the reason not to
> translate. The reason not to translate is that the strings are commands
> which are given to a machine.
I had the same reaction. The strings shown in the choices need to
be given as spelled and there is no i18n there.
> So maybe something like:
>
> There are no human-readable parts of these strings; the command you
> type is still "git maintenance" even in other languages.
I think calling that "no human-readable" would probably give another
confusion, though.
The title uses a good phrase: "literal commands", so the latter half
of your rewrite should be sufficient.
The command you type is still "git maintenance" even in other
languages.
> Regardless, the patch looks good to me. Thanks for catching it.
Yes. Good finding.
Will apply.
