Re: Git sideband hook output

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2010, 15:18 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikONJoDiyxmcmdG8zZkTCLbqXlXhrASae7rAreN@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100610183019.GR14847@spearce.org>

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:30, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com> wrote:
>> And what if my hook output is localized? Now there is an English
>> "remote:" in front of every line... Or even worse, what if the
>> "remote:" string is localized in a future version of git, then I
>> have no way of knowing how wide it is and cannot take measures to
>> format my hook output so that it will look right.
>
> Don't localize "remote:"?  Or pick a shorter translation?
>
> If its really a problem, maybe "remote: " prefix should turn into
> something shorter and language agnostic, like "<< ".  But thus far
> we hadn't had to worry about it, since we didn't have translation
> support in Git...  (though yes, I see that is changing now).

Is there any reason for why the "remote:" output needs to be echoed verbatim to the user instead of being passed through some filter.

If not, then it could be treated as part of a protocol, parsed, and localized however the user wants.

">" isn't as language-agnostic as you might think, in a RTL language the arrow ends up facing the wrong way.