From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:43:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-sh-i18n--envsubst: our own envsubst(1) for eval_gettext()
Message-ID: <BANLkTimjkuvOc4mS4hfC7PiGWrRAb_2uog@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7voc4ncg0l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 21:05, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Perhaps it is not an issue in real life; after all eval_gettext interface
> is not something you invented in 5 minutes without thinking deeply, but is
> what you plan to use from outside codebase that presumably has seen a wide
> use in the field, and it may be just that I am worried too much about an
> implausible corner case, but I thought I should bring it up.

It's a corner case, but if we run into it we can easily solve it like
this:

    #!/bin/sh
    . gettext.sh

    HOME=/home/junio
    path='$HOME/.gitconfig'
    var=core.i18n
    (
        export HOME var ;# no need for HOME, but just an illustration
        # TRANSLATORS: $path will be "$HOME/.gitconfig"
        eval_gettext 'Look at $path and find definition of $var variable.'; echo
    )

Which results in:

    $ sh /tmp/foo.sh
    Look at $HOME/.gitconfig and find definition of core.i18n variable.