From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 08:10:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: issue "-l" deprecation warning after pager starts
Message-ID: <20180602081044.GA699@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8AfCiJad8GD2xAWFp7WVFXZtZrqtE91awe0VS5Ni71rSw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 06:46:31AM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> >         if (used_deprecated_reflog_option) {
> > -               warning("the '-l' alias for '--create-reflog' is deprecated;");
> > -               warning("it will be removed in a future version of Git");
> > +               if (list) {
> > +                       warning("the '-l' option is an alias for '--create-reflog' and");
> > +                       warning("has no effect in list mode. This option will soon be");
> > +                       warning("removed and you should omit it (or use '--list' instead).");
> > +               } else {
> > +                       warning("the '-l' alias for '--create-reflog' is deprecated;");
> > +                       warning("it will be removed in a future version of Git");
> > +               }
> 
> This is already in 'next', but could you do a follow up patch to mark
> these strings for translation? While at there, concatenating them into
> full sentences would also help translators.

Already being discussed elsewhere on the thread; we're hoping for a
warning() that will auto-prefix each one.

That said, I think I'm going to re-roll this in the direction discussed
elsewhere in the thread (skipping the warning for list-mode).

-Peff