[PATCH] terminology tweak: prune -> path limiting

2018-12-06 Thread Matthew DeVore
In the codebase, "prune" is a highly overloaded term, and it caused me a lot of trouble to figure out what it meant when it was used in the context of path limiting. Stop using the word "prune" when we really mean "path limiting." Signed-off-by: Matthew DeVore ---

Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] notes: allow use of the rewrite terminology for merge strategies

2015-08-17 Thread Johan Herland
the equivalent rewrite terminology for consistency. I'm somewhat negative to this patch. IMHO, adding the rewrite modes as merge strategy synonyms adds no benefit - only potential confusion - to the existing merge strategies. Words that have a sensible meaning in the context of rewrite, do

Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] notes: allow use of the rewrite terminology for merge strategies

2015-08-17 Thread Jacob Keller
by the rewrite functionality. Teach the -s/--strategy option how to interpret the equivalent rewrite terminology for consistency. I'm somewhat negative to this patch. IMHO, adding the rewrite modes as merge strategy synonyms adds no benefit - only potential confusion - to the existing merge

Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] notes: allow use of the rewrite terminology for merge strategies

2015-08-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
the -s/--strategy option how to interpret the equivalent rewrite terminology for consistency. I'm somewhat negative to this patch. IMHO, adding the rewrite modes as merge strategy synonyms adds no benefit - only potential confusion - to the existing merge strategies. ... ... By committing

[PATCH v8 4/8] notes: allow use of the rewrite terminology for merge strategies

2015-08-17 Thread Jacob Keller
From: Jacob Keller jacob.kel...@gmail.com notes-merge.c already re-uses the same functions for the automatic merge strategies used by the rewrite functionality. Teach the -s/--strategy option how to interpret the equivalent rewrite terminology for consistency. Add tests for the new synonyms

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-06-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2013-05-23 20:16, Bernhard R. Link wrote: Not sure if German users would know what hunk means, in case we leave it untranslated. And I'm not sure if I would understand Kontext. I tend to leave it untranslated. Anyone found a German translation of the Patch manpage? Translating

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-24 Thread Ralf Thielow
2013/5/23 Bernhard R. Link brl+...@mail.brlink.eu: * Ralf Thielow ralf.thie...@gmail.com [130522 17:17]: remote branch = Remote-Branch remote-tracking branch = Remote-Tracking-Branch upstream branch= Upstream-Branch Yes. What's the main reason for using

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-24 Thread Ralf Thielow
Hi all, thanks for all your comments. Here's an updated version of the glossary including (hopefully) all the changes you've suggested. Basic repository objects: blob = Blob tree = Baum-Objekt (bevorzugt), Tree-Objekt submodule = Submodul pack(noun)

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ralf Thielow ralf.thie...@gmail.com [130522 17:17]: remote branch = Remote-Branch remote-tracking branch = Remote-Tracking-Branch upstream branch= Upstream-Branch Yes. What's the main reason for using Branch in the German text? Consistency with the

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-22 Thread Ralf Thielow
2013/5/20 Holger Hellmuth hol...@gspranz.de: Am 19.05.2013 18:56, schrieb Ralf Thielow: 2013/5/16 Holger Hellmuth (IKS) hellm...@ira.uka.de: [...] +reset = neu setzen (maybe umsetzen?) zurücksetzen reset can be used with every existing commit. zurücksetzen would imply that it

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-22 Thread Ralf Thielow
2013/5/20 Christian Stimming stimm...@tuhh.de: Thanks for the update. I would like to add some comments on this G+E glossary and I hope you are interested in reading those, even though it is known that I prefer a pure Ger translation. However, as I wrote in my other message I agree that for

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-22 Thread Holger Hellmuth (IKS)
Am 22.05.2013 17:16, schrieb Ralf Thielow: hunk = Bereich IMHO Kontext is better if you use a German word. Technically the context is something else, but in a German text IMHO it fits nicer when explaining to the user where he/she can select the n-th hunk. Not sure if

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2013-05-22 17:52, Holger Hellmuth (IKS) wrote: Not sure if German users would know what hunk means, in case we leave it untranslated. And I'm not sure if I would understand Kontext. I tend to leave it untranslated. I don't think Bereich is a bad choice. As hunk is not a word

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-19 Thread Ralf Thielow
2013/5/16 Holger Hellmuth (IKS) hellm...@ira.uka.de: +bare repository= bloßes Repository Since bloßes Rep. does not convey any sensible meaning to a german reader (at least it doesn't to me) it might as well be bare. Also bare is used as parameter to commands +remote

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-19 Thread Ralf Thielow
, the official site) does } not match the terminology used by German git. } } Like, at all. They're not even remotely near each other. My thinly veiled opinion in the thread starter was that we should redo git's de.po from scratch using a translation similar to pro-git. I can accept that discussion

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-19 Thread Ralf Thielow
Hi, here's an updated version of the glossary. Comments are appreciated. Basic repository objects: blob = Blob tree = Baum, Baum-Objekt (bevorzugt), Tree-Objekt submodule = Submodul pack(noun) = Pack-Datei pack(verb) = packen (ggf. Pack-Datei

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-19 Thread Ralf Thielow
2013/5/16 Holger Hellmuth (IKS) hellm...@ira.uka.de: [...] +reset = neu setzen (maybe umsetzen?) zurücksetzen reset can be used with every existing commit. zurücksetzen would imply that it have to be a recent commit, no? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-16 Thread Holger Hellmuth (IKS)
+bare repository= bloßes Repository Since bloßes Rep. does not convey any sensible meaning to a german reader (at least it doesn't to me) it might as well be bare. Also bare is used as parameter to commands +remote tracking branch = externer Übernahmezweig Anyone used

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-16 Thread Thomas Rast
is also quite mature at this point, having } apparently begun in 2009), and as you probably guessed by now, it's G+E. } } So that leaves us at a point where the libre Git book (and also the } one that happens to be hosted on git-scm.com, the official site) does } not match the terminology used

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Dear translators, Here's the main point in this discussion: The translation is not for us! The translation is for those who don't speak much English and who don't know the English git terminology very well. By definition, this target audience is not present here on this mailing list

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-15 Thread Holger Hellmuth (IKS)
Am 14.05.2013 19:51, schrieb Ralf Thielow: - repository = Projektarchiv - bare repository = bloßes Projektarchiv + repository = Projektarchiv, (or just Repository?) + bare repository = bloßes Projektarchiv (-||-), (reines, pures Repository) I would vote for Repository or if it needs to be

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-15 Thread Jens Lehmann
Am 15.05.2013 12:23, schrieb Holger Hellmuth (IKS): Am 14.05.2013 19:51, schrieb Ralf Thielow: - repository = Projektarchiv - bare repository = bloßes Projektarchiv + repository = Projektarchiv, (or just Repository?) + bare repository = bloßes Projektarchiv (-||-), (reines, pures Repository)

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2013-05-15 13:26, Jens Lehmann wrote: Hmm, I rather tend towards using Repository instead of Archiv too, as Archiv can mean anything from a tar-file to a git repository It's exactly the reasoning I made in my git-glossary.txt sample (of which the reasoning apparently has not made

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-15 Thread Jens Lehmann
Am 15.05.2013 13:56, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: On Wednesday 2013-05-15 13:26, Jens Lehmann wrote: but I believe Packdatei would be a much better translation (especially as the translation of pack(verb) is packen). I find it natural that a file with the extension .pack is named Packdatei While

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2013-05-15 14:27, Jens Lehmann wrote: While it's spoken Packdatei, the way to actually write it is .pack-Datei or .pack-Datei. I actually had the '-' in there too until I tried to look up Zip-Datei in the Duden. While I don't get the leading '.' (I cannot remember having seen

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-15 Thread Holger Hellmuth (IKS)
Am 15.05.2013 15:14, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: On Wednesday 2013-05-15 14:27, Jens Lehmann wrote: While it's spoken Packdatei, the way to actually write it is .pack-Datei or .pack-Datei. I actually had the '-' in there too until I tried to look up Zip-Datei in the Duden. While I don't get the

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2013-05-15 17:31, Holger Hellmuth (IKS) wrote: I actually had the '-' in there too until I tried to look up Zip-Datei in the Duden. While I don't get the leading '.' (I cannot remember having seen that anywhere, AFAIK the file extensions are always used without the dot), I'm not

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-15 Thread Ralf Thielow
Hi, I think the discussion might work better via ML than GitHub. This is the full glossary of git's de.po as it would look like with (hopefully) all the changes included that have been discussed here. Still without any reasoning for decisions (except HEAD). Thanks for reading. +Basic repository

Re: AW: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-14 Thread Ralf Thielow
Hi all, I tried to merge these different glossaries together (based on git de.po) as a new wiki page [1]. You can see the diff against the current git de.po glossary at [2]. I've also created a branch in my repository which only contains the wiki page as a text file. This allows comments on each

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2013-05-13 14:54, Thomas Rast wrote: As I am sure you are all aware, there are two main religions as to how one can translate technical material into German: leave the technical terms mostly in English, or translate them to an appropriate corresponding word. I'll denote them G+E and

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-13 Thread Ralf Thielow
, the official site) does not match the terminology used by German git. Like, at all. They're not even remotely near each other. Therefore, a total newbie would find at least one of those two totally useless. I haven't done a comprehensive survey yet, but it is my impression

Re: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-13 Thread Jens Lehmann
Am 13.05.2013 15:57, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: On Monday 2013-05-13 14:54, Thomas Rast wrote: My vote is G+E. Essentially, so is mine. ... Same here. I frequently get asked to switch Git back to English when the LANG=C gets lost, because my coworkers and myself - almost all of which are native

AW: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-13 Thread Ralph Haußmann
Hi, My vote is G+E, too. lb1a, Florian Breisch and I are working on the german translation of the pro-git book (hosted on git-scm.com). We use the repository [1] to share our work. If someone wants to help us, JOIN US! The current translation of pro-git is mixed, Ger and G+E. For example,

Re: AW: English/German terminology, git.git's de.po, and pro-git

2013-05-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2013-05-13 20:57, Ralph Haußmann wrote: There is a glossary for the pro-git book (see [2]) but it is not up-to-date and it is also mixed. Therefor I would like to avoid using this glossary. I like the idea of a shared wiki (git de.po and pro-git). I suggest a single page as overview

Re: Terminology

2005-08-05 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, I am finally finished with my preliminary survey: I took what you sent as a strawman, and inserted what I found (I tried to say only something about ambiguous naming): - The unit of storage in GIT is called object; no other word is used and the word object is used only for this

Re: Terminology

2005-08-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote: Tutorial says cache aka index. Though technically, a cache is the index file _plus_ the related objects in the object database. git-update-cache.txt even makes the difference between the index and the directory cache. I think we should

Re: Terminology

2005-08-05 Thread barkalow
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote: - The files under $GIT_DIR/refs record object names, and are called refs. What is under refs/heads/ are called heads, refs/tags/ tags. Typically, they are either object names of

Re: Terminology

2005-08-05 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote: - The files under $GIT_DIR/refs record object names, and are called refs. What is under refs/heads/ are called heads, refs/tags/

Re: Terminology

2005-08-05 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, wow! What a long mail! But I probably deserved it, quoting that lengthy mail from Junio... On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote: Tutorial says cache aka index. Though technically, a cache is the index file _plus_ the related

Re: Terminology

2005-07-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Schindelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe we should decide on a common terminology before kicking out 1.0, and look through all files in Documentation/ to have a consistent vocabulary. And poor me does not get confused no more. Glad to see you started the discussion on this one. I

Re: Terminology

2005-07-31 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, I tried to avoid the work. But I'll do it. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html