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Re: [PATCH] parseopt: do not translate empty help string

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2012, 22:08 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>> Oh, I forgot that we actually had a wrapper instead of the usual _.
>> Yes, I think that would be the better solution to guard against this.
>
> OK, then let's replace the patch text of your commit ;-).
He, we need to update the log message a bit, too.
-- >8 --
From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Subject: [PATCH] gettext: do not translate empty string

The gettext .po files have a header, but it looks like the translation specification for an empty string. This results in _("") actually returning that header.

Prevent us from passing empty strings to gettext. In some places, we run _(opts->help) where opts->help may be an empty string.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 gettext.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gettext.h b/gettext.h
index 57ba8bb..376297b 100644
--- a/gettext.h
+++ b/gettext.h
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ extern int use_gettext_poison(void);
 
 static inline FORMAT_PRESERVING(1) const char *_(const char *msgid)
 {
+	if (!*msgid)
+		return "";
 	return use_gettext_poison() ? "# GETTEXT POISON #" : gettext(msgid);
 }
 
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