Hello,
I'm currently trying to translate the git man pages into german, as some
of my co-developers want to stick with svn. Of course, I could use
git-svn, but it's not what i want. Our svn server crashed two times and
we lost the history two times.
Our native language is german and they don't like to read english
documentation. I already started translating but have some problems:
Should i translate "branch" with the appropriate german word or keep it
english? This is a Problem for "pull" "push" and the other actions as
well. Basically it's possible to copy words, but that isn't very
esthetical.
And would there be interest in this project?
With best regards,
Fabio Scotoni
From: Stephen R. van den Berg <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:04
Fabio Scotoni wrote:
Our native language is german and they don't like to read english
documentation. I already started translating but have some problems:
Should i translate "branch" with the appropriate german word or keep it
english? This is a Problem for "pull" "push" and the other actions as
well. Basically it's possible to copy words, but that isn't very
esthetical.
A good translation will translate those words. However, since the
commandline interface uses the English words, you'll be forced to
re-explain that relationship a lot of times (using parenthesis, most
likely).
--
Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
How many weeks are there in a lightyear?
From: Mark Struberg <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:04
My personal opinion:
don't translate termini technici in technical documentations, but add a translated explanation of each in the preamble.
I've never read any german book or comment where e.g. 'a commit' has been translated to 'das Uebergebene'...
(Reminds me of some old Siemens BS2000 mainfraims back in the 80s. They translated really ALL terms to german, which was frankly completely unreadable)
LieGrü,
strub
--- Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl> schrieb am Mi, 30.7.2008:
Von: Stephen R. van den Berg [off-list ref]
Betreff: Re: German translation of git man pages
An: "Fabio Scotoni" [off-list ref]
CC: git@vger.kernel.org
Datum: Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2008, 13:06
Fabio Scotoni wrote:
quoted
Our native language is german and they don't like
to read english
quoted
documentation. I already started translating but have
some problems:
quoted
Should i translate "branch" with the
appropriate german word or keep it
quoted
english? This is a Problem for "pull"
"push" and the other actions as
quoted
well. Basically it's possible to copy words, but
that isn't very
quoted
esthetical.
A good translation will translate those words. However,
since the
commandline interface uses the English words, you'll be
forced to
re-explain that relationship a lot of times (using
parenthesis, most
likely).
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On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:53 +0200, Fabio Scotoni wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently trying to translate the git man pages into german, as some
of my co-developers want to stick with svn. Of course, I could use
git-svn, but it's not what i want. Our svn server crashed two times and
we lost the history two times.
Our native language is german and they don't like to read english
documentation. I already started translating but have some problems:
Should i translate "branch" with the appropriate german word or keep it
english? This is a Problem for "pull" "push" and the other actions as
well. Basically it's possible to copy words, but that isn't very
esthetical.
There was a long discussion some months ago on this list concering the
localization of git-gui into german. Maybe you'll find some inspiration
here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=git-gui/po/de.po;hb=HEAD
It would probably be very worthwile to follow the translations there
because users of git-gui will feel at home at once instead of having to
re-learn things.
Matthias
From: Stephan Beyer <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:04
Hi,
Matthias Kestenholz wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:53 +0200, Fabio Scotoni wrote:
quoted
Hello,
I'm currently trying to translate the git man pages into german, as some
of my co-developers want to stick with svn. Of course, I could use
git-svn, but it's not what i want. Our svn server crashed two times and
we lost the history two times.
Our native language is german and they don't like to read english
documentation. I already started translating but have some problems:
Should i translate "branch" with the appropriate german word or keep it
english? This is a Problem for "pull" "push" and the other actions as
well. Basically it's possible to copy words, but that isn't very
esthetical.
There was a long discussion some months ago on this list concering the
localization of git-gui into german.
From: Stephan Beyer <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:04
Hi,
Fabio Scotoni wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently trying to translate the git man pages into german,
[...]
And would there be interest in this project?
Yes, I think your work can benefit the German git users that are like
your colleagues or that do not understand English properly.
So even if localized manual pages won't be included into git, there may
be some Linux distributions that include them.
Regards,
Stephan
--
Stephan Beyer [off-list ref], PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F
Hello,
I ran into another problem: Should i write something like "translated by
Fabio Scotoni [off-list ref]" in the Author-Part of the man pages, or
just translate it without any note (It wouldn't be a problem for me)?
With best regards,
Fabio Scotoni
From: Stephan Beyer <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:06
Hi,
Fabio Scotoni wrote:
Hello,
I ran into another problem: Should i write something like "translated by
Fabio Scotoni [off-list ref]" in the Author-Part of the man pages, or
just translate it without any note (It wouldn't be a problem for me)?
I do not see a reason why this could be forbidden ;-)
I think this is your decision.
If you write "translated by ...", people see that you are the original
author and then it could happen that you get patches for that.
If translated manual pages get included into git (I really don't know),
then it may be useful if you write "translated by Fabio Scotoni
[off-list ref] and the Git list [off-list ref]"
(or "... and the git-list [off-list ref]", as it can be found
for the authorship in the Documentation/ files.
Regards,
Stephan
--
Stephan Beyer [off-list ref], PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F