Re: German translation of git man pages

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:

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Our native language is german and they don't like

to read english

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documentation. I already started translating but have

some problems:

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Should i translate "branch" with the

appropriate german word or keep it

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english? This is a Problem for "pull"

"push" and the other actions as

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well. Basically it's possible to copy words, but

that isn't very

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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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