No it doesn't breaks N_ macro. Will resend the patch.
2015-01-09 2:05 GMT+06:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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> Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
>> ---
>
> s/Indentation for/line-wrap/, perhaps?
>
> What the patch wants to do makes sense to me, but I haven't seen a
> long multi-line string, each lines in which is terminated with "\n\"
> in the source, fed to N_() macro anywhere else in the existing
> codebase, which makes me a bit nervous.
>
> Would writing it this way instead, i.e. making it more obvious where
> each line begins and how long the indentation of subsequent lines are,
> also work?
>
> N_("git show-branch [-a|--all] ...\n"
> " [--current] [--color[=<when>]] ...\n"
> ...
> " [--no-name ...");
>
> Or does it break N_() macro?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>> builtin/show-branch.c | 5 ++++-
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/show-branch.c b/builtin/show-branch.c
>> index 270e39c..2e60107 100644
>> --- a/builtin/show-branch.c
>> +++ b/builtin/show-branch.c
>> @@ -6,7 +6,10 @@
>> #include "parse-options.h"
>>
>> static const char* show_branch_usage[] = {
>> - N_("git show-branch [-a|--all] [-r|--remotes] [--topo-order | --date-order] [--current] [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--sparse] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] [--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics] [(<rev> | <glob>)...]"),
>> + N_("git show-branch [-a|--all] [-r|--remotes] [--topo-order | --date-order]\n\
>> + [--current] [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--sparse]\n\
>> + [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base]\n\
>> + [--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics] [(<rev> | <glob>)...]"),
>> N_("git show-branch (-g|--reflog)[=<n>[,<base>]] [--list] [<ref>]"),
>> NULL
>> };