Re: [PATCH 2/2] Re: git-gui: some French translation enhancements

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:14:26AM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:34:54AM -0400, Alexandre Bourget wrote:                                                                                                           

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Le vendredi 20 mars 2009 à 08:13 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit :

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:54:02AM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
IMHO, we should find a better way to say that than to use the "index"
word at all. This obviously applies to all uses of "index" in french
where we avoided it in english.

OTOH, the best I can find for "staging area" is "zone de préparation",
and that doesn't help finding a word for stage and unstage.

"zone de préparation" sounds good to me.

I'm not sure we are doing more good than bad. The "index" is a
technical's Git word which has its own sense in Git.

We could provide a pure "only french terms" translation but I'm not sure
it's the best way to work in software translation.

"Index" is a one of theses terms having a "special meaning in place".
It stands in English for "staging area" and could have the same meaning
in french mainly because we don't have a good french word to that
special use case.

"Index" as-is in the french po is NOT a non-sense. Also, french people
newbie in Git would easily find help for the index (most websites are in
english).

Except that the english version tends to move away from the "index"
term, in favour of "staging area", if my understanding of what was said
at GitTogether is right.

Mike