Hi,
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Change all the "TRANSLATORS: [...]" comments in the C code to use the
> regular Git coding style, and amend the style guide so that the
> example there uses that style.
Hooray!
[...]
> --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> @@ -256,12 +256,12 @@ For C programs:
>
> Note however that a comment that explains a translatable string to
The "Note however" isn't needed since it's not contradicting
the previous point any more. This can be an entirely separate item:
- A comment that explains a translatable string to translators
uses a convention of starting with a magic token "TRANSLATORS: "
[etc]
It might even make sense to remove the explanation of TRANSLATORS
comments from this file altogether, since they're intuitive to use.
A more common place to want to learn about them is po/README, which
already explains them.
[...]
> --- a/bisect.c
> +++ b/bisect.c
> @@ -995,8 +995,10 @@ int bisect_next_all(const char *prefix, int no_checkout)
>
> steps_msg = xstrfmt(Q_("(roughly %d step)", "(roughly %d steps)",
> steps), steps);
> - /* TRANSLATORS: the last %s will be replaced with
> - "(roughly %d steps)" translation */
> + /*
> + * TRANSLATORS: the last %s will be replaced with "(roughly %d
> + * steps)" translation.
> + */
Nice.
[...]
> +++ b/ref-filter.c
> @@ -1251,13 +1251,17 @@ char *get_head_description(void)
> state.branch);
> else if (state.detached_from) {
> if (state.detached_at)
> - /* TRANSLATORS: make sure this matches
> - "HEAD detached at " in wt-status.c */
> + /*
> + * TRANSLATORS: make sure this matches "HEAD
> + * detached at " in wt-status.c
> + */
optional: could treat "HEAD detached at " as an unbreakable phrase
for the sake of line-breaking, for easier grepping.
But what's here is also perfectly fine.
[...]
> - /* TRANSLATORS: make sure this matches
> - "HEAD detached from " in wt-status.c */
> + /*
> + * TRANSLATORS: make sure this matches "HEAD
> + * detached from " in wt-status.c
> + */
Likewise.
The rest also look good. This is great.
Thanks,
Jonathan
