Re: [L10N] Kickoff of translation for Git 2.10.0 round 1

Jean-Noël AVILA [off-list ref] writes:

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3. git-rebase--interactive, in this_nth_commit_message and
skip_nth_commit_message are not localizable,

As the "TRANSLATORS" comment alludes to, "This is the Nth thing" can
be rephrased to "This is the thing N" or "This is the thing #N"
easily, and if that form without ordinal is acceptable for many
languages, we should say that it is also OK in C-locale without
translation.  So I agree that the recent change was pointless (even
though the result may be localizable).

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so I do not think we cannot do it with ngettext().

Let's cut it like this : first ten are literally translated, the following ones 
fall back to a general rule.

I actually once wrote "It is rare to squash dozens of commits into
one, so the first ten or dozen messages that spell the ordinals out
may be a good thing for readability", in the message you are
responding to, before realizing that the messages actually say
"1st", "2nd", etc., not "first", "second", etc., and scrapped that
part of the response.  I do not really see much point in forcing the
first ten to be translated differently.

On mardi 23 août 2016 08:58:55 CEST Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Let's cut it like this : first ten are literally translated, the following
ones fall back to a general rule.

I actually once wrote "It is rare to squash dozens of commits into
one, so the first ten or dozen messages that spell the ordinals out
may be a good thing for readability", in the message you are
responding to, before realizing that the messages actually say
"1st", "2nd", etc., not "first", "second", etc., and scrapped that
part of the response.  I do not really see much point in forcing the
first ten to be translated differently.

In fact, taking some advance on the patch, I made the translations and used 
full words in the translated language.
By majority of repliers, let's just use a single sentence for each case "use" 
or "skip". 

Will rerun the patch set.

JN