Software source code management in French

Yesterday there was a tutorial on Git, the source code management system.  It seemed like a good opportunity to practice my French listening skills and learn a bit about Git to boot, so I went.  For two hours, I listened to two guys speak.  I could understand almost everything that one of them said, but no more than half of what the other one said.  I wish I knew what makes me able to understand some people, but not others, so that I could do something about it, but for the moment, I don’t have that much sophistication.  However, all is well–I did indeed learn more about Git.  I had no clue that you could run it toute seule (all alone), without a remote repository, and I went back to my office afterwards and immediately started using it for my current project.  As always, Zipf’s Law was all over the place, and I learned a lot of new words.  To try to impose some order on this very long list, I’ll separate it into nouns, verbs, and function words/phrases.  Function words/phrases first:

• plusieurs: several, a number of, a lot of.
• pour l’instant: for the moment, for now.
• plein: full.  Plein de: full of.  A number of other senses–follow the link for more.
• même si: even if.

Nouns:

• la copie de travail: working copy.
• le dépôt: in this sense, repository.
• dépôt local: local repository.
• dépôt distant: remote repository.
• la zone d’attente: in this case, staging area.  More generally, a waiting area.
• le titre du commit: title or heading of the commit.
• le chemin relatif: relative path.
• la constitution: many senses–I think that here the relevant one was the creation or setting up of something.
• une étape: stage, step.
• le commentaire: comment.  I’m happy to say that there was a lot of emphasis on good comments (another software engineering technical term–sorry).
• la ligne de commande: command line.
• la expérimentation: testing, trial, experimentation.  I haven’t figured out when to use this word for “experiment” versus when to use expérience, which seems to be more common, in my limited sample
• la modif’: seemed to be slang for modification–a change or alternation.
• le système de fichier: file system.
• le conflit: conflict, clash.
• le truc: I’m not sure what this meant.  It might have been “trick,” as in a trick for doing something.  Truc has many other meanings–follow this link to see them.
• étouffé: suffocated, smothered, stifled, deadened, muted.  I’m really not sure what sense this was used in–maybe what we would call in English “suppressing” output?
• le cadre: if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard, and been puzzled by, this word…  I still don’t know in what sense it’s used here, but here’s a link to the WordReference.com entry.

Verbs:

• récupérer: to get back, recover, retrieve.
• réaliser le commit: carry out the commit (software engineering technical term, sorry).  Réaliser can also be to make, produce, or create.
• soumettre: many senses, but in this sense, to submit, as in submitting something to a repository.
• annuler: to cancel, delete, undo, annul.
• résoudre: to solve, resolve.
• mettre à jour: to update.
• publier: to publish or release.  This has a technical meaning in software engineering, and it was used in that sense.