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Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule: avoid sentence-lego in translated string
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Jean-No=C3=ABl AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr> writes:

> On Monday, 9 October 2017, 09:47:26 CEST Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> I always assumed that translators are aware of these issues and sort o=
f
>> work around this somehow, maybe like this:
>>=20
>>   "submodule entry '%s' (%s) is not a commit. It is of type %s"
>
> Translators can be aware of the issue if the coder commented the=20
> internationalization string with some possible candidates for the place=
holders=20
> when it is not clear unless you check in the source code. Much effort w=
as=20
> poured into translating the technical terms in other parts of Git; it s=
eems=20
> awkward to just step back in this occurence.

I do not see this particular case as "stepping back", though.

Our users do not spell "git cat-file -t commit v2.0^{commit}" with
'commit' translated to their language, right?  Shouldn't an error
message output use the same phrase the input side requests users to
use?