Re: [PATCH v9 4/4] tag: support configuring --sort via .gitconfig

> "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 19:42 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:32:59PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> >> 
> >> > +static void error_bad_sort_config(const char *err, va_list params)
> >> > +{
> >> > +	vreportf("warning: tag.sort has ", err, params);
> >> > +}
> >> 
> >> This feels a little like an abuse of the "prefix" field of vreportf, but
> >> as you probably saw in my "for fun" patch, doing it right means
> >> formatting into a buffer and then reformatting that (which we're
> >> already doing again in vreportf, but less flexibly). I dunno.
> >> 
> >> At any rate, this should be marked for translation, no?
> >> 
> >> -Peff
> >
> > Oh, yes it probably should. It's definitely a little bit abusive of the
> > prefix field, but that seemed easier.
> 
> And i18n would automatically mean this will not work, no?  There is
> no guarantee that the translation of "warning: " will be followed
> directly by the translation of "tag.sort has" without any words from
> variable part in all languages.
> 
> After all, it seems to me that the one in
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/253346
> 
> struck the right balance among various abuses; let's use the error
> reporter from that version, instead of going down this rabbit hole.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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