Re: [PATCH 4/4] gitweb: No periods for error messages

From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2006, 01:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20060805010307.17651.qmail@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsfgghi2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

--- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> This and Jakub's [1/5] seem to be going the opposite way.

Not quite.  They both do the same thing, except his patch
does it only half way: 
  - no full stop for error messages ending with some kind
    of variable expansion.
  - full stop for static error messages.

> I tend to prefer ending each sentence with a full stop.

I've never seen this in, among other things,
  - kernel messages
  - errno messages
  - web server messages
  - RFC text describing error messages, (web services),
  - etc.

I was going for was consistency.  I'd say apply Jacob's [6/5].

   Luben