From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:04:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] i18n: rebase: mark strings for translation Message-ID: <7vhaszr31r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <724ca3989123159c9970b3276b4764dcbd5fd56e.1342920089.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com> Jiang Xin writes: > -resolvemsg=" > +resolvemsg="$(gettext " > When you have resolved this problem run \"git rebase --continue\". > If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run \"git rebase --skip\". > To check out the original branch and stop rebasing run \"git rebase --abort\". > -" > +")" Two micronits: - A="B" assignment can lose the outermost dq-pair around it (i.e. A=B), which might make the above easier to read. - The original message had to backslash-quote only because the outermost quote was done with a dq-pair, but it does not use any substitutions, so turning it into a sq-pair might make the above easier to read. With "might", I am not saying the above should be _fixed_; I am merely saying we may want to consider these points to see if some changes to your patch are improvements. resolvemsg=$(gettext ' When you have resolved this problem run "git rebase --continue". If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git rebase --skip". To check out the original branch and stop rebasing run "git rebase --abort". ') > @@ -316,12 +317,12 @@ test $# -gt 2 && usage > if test -n "$cmd" && > test "$interactive_rebase" != explicit > then > - die "--exec option must be used with --interactive option" > + die "$(gettext -- "--exec option must be used with --interactive option")" This is a related tangent, but have we resolved that issue with xgettext and "--"? Ahh, I see you did something in [3/7] ;-) Thanks.