Branko Čibej wrote:

> On 24.01.2013 00:42, Andreas Stieger wrote:
>>  I found the following output of "svn mergeinfo" troublesome to 
>> localize.
>> 
>>      youngest  last               repos.
>>      common    full     tip of    path of
>>      ancestor  merge    branch    branch
>> 
>>      2                  6      
>>      |                  |      
>>         --| |------------         branches/branch1
>>         /         /              
>>       /         /              
>>    -------| |------------         trunk
>>                |        |      
>>                5        6      
>> 
>>  Would something like this not be better?
>> 
>>      youngest common ancestor
>>      |         last full merge
>>      |         |        tip of branch
>>      |         |        |         repository path
>> 
>>      2                  6      
>>      |                  |      
>>         --| |------------         branches/branch1
>>         /         /            
>>       /         /              
>>    -------| |------------         trunk
>>                |        |      
>>                5        6      
> 
> I agree your suggested layout is easier to translate. However ...
> 
>>  A patch to this effect is attached for consideration.
>> 
>>  [[[
>>  make mergeinfo diagram column headings l10n friendly
>> 
>>  * subversion/svn/mergeinfo-cmd.c
>>    (mergeinfo_diagram): use one line per column heading and
>>     vertical lines, leaving room for l10n
>>  ]]]

Sounds good to me.  +1.

> The patch itself still makes translators deal with the position of the
> vertical bars. If we're going to change the layout, we may as well make
> it even easier for translators so that they don't have to worry about
> positioning, just translating the headings.

Yes, that would be even better.

- Julian

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