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Re: [PATCH] i18n: proposed command missing leading dash

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Sandy Carter <sandy.carter@savoirfairelinux.com>
Date
Mar 1, 2014, 00:36 UTC
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Should I also update the relevant git.pot and *.po sections?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Sandy Carter" <sandy.carter@savoirfairelinux.com>, git@vger.kernel.org, "jn avila" <jn.avila@free.fr>, "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 6:31:32 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i18n: proposed command missing leading dash
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> To make life saner for translators, this should be either
> untranslatable or a single multi-line string, I suspect:
>
> diff --git i/builtin/branch.c w/builtin/branch.c
> index b4d7716..972040c 100644
> --- i/builtin/branch.c
> +++ w/builtin/branch.c
> @@ -1022,11 +1022,13 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  		 */
>  		if (argc == 1 && track == BRANCH_TRACK_OVERRIDE &&
>  		    !branch_existed && remote_tracking) {
> -			fprintf(stderr, _("\nIf you wanted to make '%s' track '%s', do this:\n\n"), head, branch->name);
> -			fprintf(stderr, _("    git branch -d %s\n"), branch->name);
> -			fprintf(stderr, _("    git branch --set-upstream-to %s\n"), branch->name);
> +			fprintf(stderr, "\n");
> +			fprintf(stderr, _("If you wanted to make '%s' track '%s', do this:\n\n"
> +					  "    git branch -d %s\n"
> +					  "    git branch --set-upstream-to %s"),
> +					head, branch->name, branch->name, branch->name);
> +			fprintf(stderr, "\n");
>  		}
> -
>  	} else
>  		usage_with_options(builtin_branch_usage, options);
>  
> What do you think?

Yes, I think it is sensible to make sure that the command examples are not corrupted by the _() process.

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Message 4 of 11 in “i18n: proposed command missing leading dash”
  1. i18n: proposed command missing leading dashSandy Carter, Feb 28, 2014
  2. Jonathan NiederFeb 28, 2014
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2014
  4. Sandy CarterMar 1, 2014
  5. 1/2 i18n: proposed command missing leading dashSandy Carter, Mar 3, 2014
  6. 2/2 i18n: assure command not corrupted by _() processSandy Carter, Mar 3, 2014
  7. Sandy CarterMar 10, 2014
  8. Duy NguyenMar 11, 2014
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2014
  10. Jiang XinMar 5, 2014
  11. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2014

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