Re: [PATCH] l10n: de.po: translate "index" as "Index"

Am Montag, 1. Juni 2015, 12:34:31 schrieb Stefan Beller:

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Christian Stimming [off-list ref] 

wrote:

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"index" concept, my explanation routinely says "This concept is called
'index' but it has nothing to do with any associations you make with that
word. Better remember this thingy as *** and replace the termin 'index'
with *** every time you read about it." where "***" is my preferred
translation. The facial expressions of the audience regarding "index"
regularly confirm this approach as the better one. I never encountered
anyone who says "Oh, but isn't 'index' a much better term for this than
what you said..."

So the *** is cut out here, or do you literally advise to think of a
black magic box here?
I'd be interested to know your preferred translation, maybe that can
be used instead of Staging-Area then?

Sorry for being unclear here: I left out the concrete word I use because you 
might need to come up with your own choice in the command-line git 
translation. The point of this remark is rather that almost any other term is 
better than leaving "index" as a term as-is. The term that I use is only one 
among probably many possibilities.

In case you still want to know my preferred German word, I stick to the 
translations that are used in git-gui, mostly still proposed by myself in 
(huh) 2008. http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/blob/HEAD:/po/glossary/de.po  
There, "index" isn't used in the user interface anymore but rather "staging 
area", and that's translated into German as "Bereitstellung". In my experience 
this term works quite well for a German-speaking developer audience, even 
though the term with its military background is only seldomly used or known. 
But the word triggers some well-suited associations: partly "bereit" for the 
next step, partly "Stellung" as some extra third place in addition to working 
copy and repository. But that might very well be a different discussion than 
what you need to discuss for command line git.

Regards,

Christian