Re: [PATCH 03/72] t/test-lib.sh: add always-set NO_GETTEXT_POISON prerequisite

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 20, 2011, 22:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20110220223600.GB32455@elie>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikRv9BGWXrf5u7xptgZ9hajeju-QU7WS9Zj3sYP@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> The only reason I can think of to have it is to make sure that
> messages like the "enter the commit message" ones have the correct
> newlines in all languages, but msgfmt --check catches that anyway, or
> to somehow test Git's output in different languages, but I'd rather do
> that differently (not test output, but behavior).
>
> So given all of the above I might never get around to implementing it.

I guess I'm confused. I've been saying (repeatedly, and probably annoyingly) that anyone seeing the NO_GETTEXT_POISON prereq for the first time isn't going to have any clue what it means. I think that's a problem. Do you not think so?