From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 05:36:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Has anyone looked at Gettext support for Git itself?
Message-ID: <20100516053651.GB17200@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikgs3d1YagU5lRCkEM9uwWe9dmifbHvIjhsk_wF@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:12:20AM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
>     GETTEXT=`which gettext 2> /dev/null`
>     if [ -z $GETTEXT ] ; then GETTEXT='echo -n'; fi

'echo -n' is not portable, and it is not used in git for this reason.

Dmitry

> And then just:
> 
>     - echo "We are not bisecting."
>     + $GETTEXT "We are not bisecting."

If gettext does not add the trailing newline to the message then it is
clearly not equivalent replacement.


Dmitry