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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/5] glossary: introduce glossary lookup command
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:06:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqiohidk8a.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5489B70E.2040604@drmicha.warpmail.net> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:23:58 +0100")

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net> writes:

>> I wondered if we want to also have the associated documentation in
>> response to a query, but I am not sure how well that would go
>> without having a translated glossary at least.  I.e. pulling the
>
> Yes, I think we would need something different then. The glossary
> entries are asciidoc which we can't format easily from the glossary
> command. I really think of the glossary command as being orthogonal to
> the definitory glossary. I guess I should name it "translate" instead.
> ...
>
>> original from glossary-content.txt would produce something like
>> this:
>> 
>> 	$ LANG=de git glossary -l blob object
>>         Blob-Objekten
>> 	Untyped <<def_object,object>>, e.g. the contents of a file.
>> 
>> which is not ideal.

I didn't mean the AsciiDoc part, though.  I meant that the contents
are not in LANG=de, which is not ideal.  So translating "blob object"
to whatever it is called in LANG=de, without the description, is the
best we can do without having a translated documentation set.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-11 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-08 15:38 [RFC/PATCH 0/5] git-glossary Michael J Gruber
2014-12-08 15:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/5] glossary.h: generate a glossary list from the Makefile Michael J Gruber
2014-12-08 15:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/5] glossary: introduce glossary lookup command Michael J Gruber
2014-12-10 22:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-11 15:23     ` Michael J Gruber
2014-12-11 20:06       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-12-08 15:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/5] glossary: man page Michael J Gruber
2014-12-08 15:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 4/5] l10n: git-glossary Michael J Gruber
2014-12-08 16:04 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/5] git-glossary Michael J Gruber
2014-12-08 16:16 ` Christian Couder
2014-12-08 16:41   ` Michael J Gruber

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