git-manpages-l10n

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Some parts of git inline help are very close to the documentation strings. This task could be applied to all available languages in git and could help kickstart translations in other languages.

"translate toolkit" provides a utility name pretranslate that can do the job.

I've just done a quick test-run with po/documentation.de.po from current master and de.po from git/git's current master. The command I ran was

pretranslate po/documentation.de.po -t de.po -o po/documentation.de.po.

It works, but needs manual review (a carefull git add -p, probably). It marks all strings, even exact matches and unchanged strigs as fuzzy.

OK; so this is at most a one-time process. I haven't tested for French. Do you think it's worth it?

Yes, but I'm still thinking of a way to filter out the changes that are just marking an existing string as fuzzy.

Also it's probably more of a once every couple git releases thing.

I used the following line:

$ pretranslate -t po/documentation.fr.po -i po/documentation.pot --tm=../git/po/fr.po -o po/documentation.pre.fr.po

In fact, I think that's exactly the way it has to be used for new versions of po/documentation.pot

I did it for es_MX and ru.