Re: [PATCH/RFC v4 1/7] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:

But maybe that's counter-productive. Just making the English strings 
translatable as-is is still going to make most of Git translatable, and it 
isn't going to be that bad for languages like German and French.

I think this is the best approach. Without actually making *everything* 
available for translation it is impossible to weed out the problems. Some of 
the easier "hack" strings (plural word%s, sentence %s%s building, etc) can 
be fixed during conversion, the rest can be done later as complai^Wcomments 
come in.

It would be useful to have an example of a message that could use 
pluralization, even better examples in all of C, Perl and Shell.

There is the "Your branch is ahead of..." messages, they were introduced in 
commit b0030db331141bedfaf02f34a83f18712c0ae011, and are currently using a 
"commit%s" form, where the %s either maps to an empty string or "s". Should 
be fairly trivial to fix. I think there are other examples as well, but 
that's the first one I came to think of. :-)

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