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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] range-diff: add section header instead of diff header
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:28:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46e31ffc-60f6-1aef-5159-6796b7f13294@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cTJyYLGAfHM_PrZd9DDaZBcVUetcWFcANGCYPvaMh2qxA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 15.04.19 um 01:29 schrieb Eric Sunshine:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 5:10 PM Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +                               strbuf_remove(&line, 0, 4);
>> +                       if (!strcmp(filename_a.buf, "/dev/null")) {
>> +                               strbuf_addstr(&buf, "new file ");
>> +                               strbuf_addbuf(&buf, &line);
>> +                       } else if (!strcmp(line.buf, "/dev/null")) {
>> +                               strbuf_addstr(&buf, "removed file ");
>> +                               strbuf_addbuf(&buf, &line);
>> +                       } else if (strbuf_cmp(&filename_a, &line)) {
>> +                               strbuf_addstr(&buf, "renamed file ");
>> +                               strbuf_addbuf(&buf, &filename_a);
>> +                               strbuf_addstr(&buf, " -> ");
>> +                               strbuf_addbuf(&buf, &line);
>> +                       } else {
>> +                               strbuf_addstr(&buf, "modified file ");
>> +                               strbuf_addbuf(&buf, &line);
>> +                       }
> 
> All of these disposition strings end with "file", which seems
> redundant. Short and sweet "new", "removed", "renamed", "modified"
> provide just as much useful information.
> 
> Also, should these strings be localizable? Alternately, rather than
> using prose to describe the disposition, perhaps do so symbolically
> (thus universally), say with "+", "-", "->", "*" (or ""),
> respectively?
When the strings are translated, it would be preferable to not do this
sentence lego at all and have format strings that are filled with the
values.

Then the noise word "file" is probably not that bad, in particular, when
translators tend to not add words that they don't see in the original.
For example, German translations of "new %s" I anticipate "neues %s",
"%s (neu)", "neu %s", all of which are awkward, but translations of "new
file %s" lends itself naturally to "neue Datei %s", which is fine.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-15  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-11 11:17 incorrect range-diff output? Duy Nguyen
2019-04-11 22:05 ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-12  8:41   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-14 21:12     ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-12  9:21   ` Duy Nguyen
2019-04-12 15:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-14 21:20     ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-15  2:01       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-15 12:40     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-14 21:09   ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] output improvements for git range-diff Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 21:09     ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] range-diff: fix function parameter indentation Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 21:09     ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] range-diff: don't remove funcname from inner diff Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 23:21       ` Eric Sunshine
2019-04-15 12:54         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 18:56           ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-17 11:52             ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-24 18:15               ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-15 12:53       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 18:57         ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 21:09     ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] range-diff: add section header instead of diff header Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 23:29       ` Eric Sunshine
2019-04-15  6:28         ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2019-04-15 13:01         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 19:09           ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 21:09     ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] range-diff: add section headers to the outer hunk header Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-15 12:44       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 18:48         ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-15 12:47     ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] output improvements for git range-diff Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 19:25       ` Thomas Gummerer

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