From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:34:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] gettextize: git-revert split up "could not revert/apply" message
Message-ID: <20100907053420.GR1182@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=V01_OP+6pxrUakF=cTGFL=nOv=9C5meQU2H8C@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> to do this we'd have steal some locale.

Alas.  Thanks for explaining.

> Also, the set of tests we want to skip under POISON (i.e. automated
> garbage) is slightly different from the tests we want to skip under
> TEST_LOCALE=, because some of those tests are checking for the %s in
> "file failed: %s". So they'll fail under POISON, but shouldn't fail
> under any translation.

This could be fixable in the long term, no?  e.g., under POISON we
could have something like

 _ () {
	 perl -pe 's/(?<!%)[^%#]*/POISON/g'
 }

to preserve commit message comments and % directives.