Re: git-gui translation updates needed

Michele Ballabio [off-list ref] writes:

On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

 - It is curious that de.po is ...

IIRC, the timetable was:
	* Christian Stimming submits a new de.po
	* Shawn Pearce updates git-gui.pot and asks for help
	* other languages are submitted

So de.po has a different date, but doesn't miss anything since
no major change has occurred in git-gui.git in the meantime.

That explains it; thanks.

quoted

 - I am seeing "1 untranslated", even though it.po is based on the latest
   git-gui.pot.  It translates "buckets" to an empty string; somebody who
   care about Italian may need to double check.

An empty string means "there's no translation, use the default" -- in
this case: "buckets". I left it this way because I couldn't come up
with a decent translation, and I wanted to keep a reminder.

I understand your intention, and I think I phrased it wrongly, as if I was
saying that you were actively telling git-gui to say nothing when it wants
to say "buckets" in English.  You did the right thing by leaving it
"empty", so that other people (like me) can notice the "untranslated"
warning during build.  That is why I said "somebody ... may need to double
check".

In this case, git-gui is counting objects during a clone; would it be OK
to consider "buckets" as synonim of "objects" or "items" or something
else?  Then I would translate accordingly.

A cursory read of the codepath with that message tells me that Shawn is
calling one [0-9a-f][0-9a-f] directory under .git/objects/ a "bucket" and
counting the number of them while copying them to implement "git clone"
inside git-gui (why?---that is a separate issue).

Calling it "objects" would be technically incorrect; using a countable
noun that does not have a particular meaning (e.g. "items") would be a
good solution for this, I think.