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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] i18n: mark relative dates for translation
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

>                               what I meant was that diff will be so
> large that this will always be feeding more than 1 to %lu, so the first
> template string will never be used.
>
> But it cannot be N_("%lu years ago", number), as others correctly
> pointed out.  We want to use ngettext() here, because it is not enough
> to know that number is always greater than 1 to correctly phrase this in
> some languages.

Ah, I see now.  Thanks for a patient explanation.