Re: [PATCH] l10n: de.po: fix some minor issues

Ralf Thielow [off-list ref] writes:

This fixes some minor issues and improves the
German translation a bit. The following things
were changed:
- use complete sentences in option related messages
- translate "use" consistently as "verwendet"
- don't translate "make sense" as "macht Sinn"

Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <redacted>

It would be easier on the reviewers if you could split out such
search&replace changes as s/benutzt/verwendet/ into a separate patch.

I'm not sure though which one would be more error-prone.  As it stands,
it's very tiring to review because of the very similar s/// changes, and
I am unlikely to spot any other change or mistake in a message that
undergoes the substitution.  With my proposal, I'd just skip reviewing
the s/// patch :-)

[No, don't change it for this patch; not worth the splitting effort.]

 #: builtin/checkout.c:964
 msgid "paths cannot be used with switching branches"
-msgstr "Pfade können nicht mit dem Wechseln von Zweigen benutzt werden"
+msgstr "Pfade können nicht mit dem Wechseln von Zweigen verwendet werden"
 
 #: builtin/checkout.c:967 builtin/checkout.c:971
 #, c-format
 msgid "'%s' cannot be used with switching branches"
-msgstr "'%s' kann nicht mit dem Wechseln von Zweigen benutzt werden"
+msgstr "'%s' kann nicht mit dem Wechseln von Zweigen verwendet werden"

Not new, but they sound a bit strange to me.  Perhaps "kann nicht *beim*
Wechseln von Zweigen verwendet werden"?

Not new either, but also took a second reading.  Maybe "muss an erster
Stelle stehen"?

 #: builtin/describe.c:482
 msgid "--dirty is incompatible with committishes"
-msgstr "--dirty ist inkompatibel mit Versionen"
+msgstr "Die Option --dirty ist inkompatibel mit Versionen."

I think in this case it would sound nicer if you used the "Die Option
--dirty kann nicht mit Versionen verwendet werden" pattern instead of
the "inkompatibel" one.

 #: builtin/grep.c:866
 msgid "--open-files-in-pager only works on the worktree"
-msgstr "--open-files-in-pager arbeitet nur innerhalb des Arbeitsbaums"
+msgstr "Die Option --open-files-in-pager kann nur innerhalb des "
+"Arbeitsbaums."

... " verwendet werden"!

 #: builtin/grep.c:897
 msgid "--[no-]exclude-standard cannot be used for tracked contents."
-msgstr ""
-"--[no-]exlude-standard kann nicht mit beobachteten Inhalten benutzt werden"
+msgstr "Die Option --[no-]exlude-standard kann nicht mit beobachteten "
+"Inhalten verwendet werden."

Typo in --no-exClude-standard.  (It was in the old version, too.)

 #: builtin/log.c:1218
 msgid "--name-only does not make sense"
-msgstr "--name-only macht keinen Sinn"
+msgstr "Die Option --name-only kann nicht verwendet werden."

If you were curious as to the point of the message (even in English):
it's only triggered by format-patch.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch