Hello everyone, I have just finished the Bulgarian translation of git. Doing this allowed me to identify about 90 places where the original messages can be improved - for consistency, spaces/tabs, abbreviations etc. 12 of these places however are really WTF messages - they do not explain properly what is wrong or right about the current state i.e. the user does not know what the problem is wrong and is left clueless how to fix things.
I will send a patch with my suggestion for improving these 12 messages. Fixing these will provide most value for the final user of git. The rest of improvements can wait. I will add the maintainer of i18n, every active translator of git to CC so they can react accordingly or just add suggestions. I think fixing these in the 2.1 timeframe is not possible as the state of the translations will suffer plus there needs to be at least some minimal discussion as I can have botched the messages. I propose fixing them in early 2.1 maintenance releases or 2.2 latest. Just FYI, the set of WTFs is: #: merge-recursive.c:1861 msgid "Unprocessed path??? %s" #: builtin/clean.c:517 msgid "Huh (%s)?" #: builtin/commit.c:1201 msgid "Clever... amending the last one with dirty index." #: builtin/index-pack.c:1067 msgid "confusion beyond insanity in parse_pack_objects()" #: builtin/index-pack.c:1142 msgid "confusion beyond insanity" #: builtin/log.c:995 msgid "insane in-reply-to: %s" #: builtin/log.c:1068 msgid "Two output directories?" #: builtin/merge.c:845 msgid "Wonderful.\n" #: builtin/merge.c:1403 msgid "Nope.\n" #: builtin/remote.c:954 msgid " ???" #: builtin/tag.c:504 msgid "no tag message?" #: git-bisect.sh:424 msgid "?? what are you talking about?" Kind regards: al_shopov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
