Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: display the SHA1 of the commit being currently processed

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:10:02 +0200

Am 6/20/2013 9:56, schrieb Peter Krefting:
> Junio C Hamano:
> 
>> But my understanding is that the reordering using printf() is the
>> mechanism we suggest l10n folks to use when the order of parameters
>> given to printf does not match the preferred word order in the message
>> in their language.
> 
> It's documented in the gettext manual, and seems to be used in the
> zh_CN.po to change the word order in quite a few places.

It is fine to use %n$ in translated strings as long as gettext is enabled
only on systems that have a sufficiently capable printf and these formats
are not used in the source code.

But you can't have this string:

  "Splitting a commit while rebasing branch '%2$s' on '%3$s'."

neither in the template nor in the translation, because the numbers must
begin at 1 (and must be used without gaps).

-- Hannes