Book Title Translation #28
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In this thread we'll discuss the translation of the book title.
The original title is Git, Verteilte Versionskontrolle für Code und Dokumente (Git, Distributed Version Control for Code and Documents), but the book is mostly known as Das Git Buch (The Git Book).
We've already touched upon the subject in various comments, especially about somehow preserving the German identity of the book by referring to it as "The Git Buch" (German alias), in a mixture of English and German.
But we'll have to consider other factors too, from cataloguing to SEO, and distinguish between the actual book title (title + subtitle) and its shorthand alias(es).
The original title (i.e. just the title part "Git") is too short in itself, and we have to consider that in book cataloguing often only the title is used, so we'll have to think about a translation where the title and subtitle are more balanced in length.
Ultimately, we'll be using all of them in some measure or another, depending on the context:
Git-Book.html
/.pdf
orGitBook.html
/.pdf
, to emphasize the English alias (using Git Buch as the file name would be confusing).Git-Buch_EN
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