Re: Subtle mistake in the German help text for export

On Jul 26, 2011, at 03:39, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> The output of "svn help export" contains these sentences:
>
> Ohne Angabe von REV werden alle lokalen Änderungen beibehalten.
> Objekte, die sich nicht unter Versionskontrolle befinden, werden
> in diesem Fall auch nicht kopiert.
>
> Compare this to the English version:
>
> If REV is not specified, all local changes will be preserved.
> Files not under version control will not be copied.
>
> The German version mistranslates the second sentence to "Files not under
> version control will not be copied _in_ _this_ _case_.", where said case can
> only refer to the previous sentence. This basically implies that unversioned
> files and folders are copied unless a specific revision is specified.

I agree this translation is misleading, and would suggest removing the words "in diesem Fall auch" from it.
Received on 2011-07-26 11:06:46 CEST