Re: 'gettext -- "--cached cannot be used with --files"' does not work

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2010, 00:06 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTike11Hm2s6un37-jgT8rOyf=7k-Vw7M5vEs+9Vp@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101112001037.6e0fef15@ivo.pl>

2010/11/12 Michał Kiedrowicz <mkiedrowicz@ivo.pl>:

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> I just noticed that
>
>        'gettext -- "--cached cannot be used with --files"'
>
> in git-submodule.sh generates
>
>        #: git-submodule.sh:588
>        msgid "--"
>        msgstr ""
>
> in *.po files. You can this e.g. in po/de.po.
>
> This is not what commit message says :)
>
>    gettextize: git-submodule "cached cannot be used" message
>
>    Gettextize the "--cached cannot be used with --files" message. Since
>    this message starts with "--" we have to pass "--" as the first
>    argument. This works with both GNU gettext 0.18.1 (as expected), and
>    the gettext(1) on Solaris 10.

Thanks for the report. I spotted this a while ago, meant to raise it and put it on my TODO list.

Then I forgot about it :)

Anyway, the issue is with xgettext(1), not gettext itself. I.e. the shellscript parser is broken.