Re: [Outreachy]Amend error messages and prompts of various (sub)commands

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 17, 2022, 13:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1JwZU3DiimZOruLv+x18UFdK5phMxnWnHyiOyh-XR4Ng@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+PPyiEsN9dJj61VdnoT2=TYV54WTLA_-qL4CiT7=imuvuBdmw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Wilberforce,

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 3:08 PM NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE <nsengiyumvawilberforce@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi team,
>
> My first microproject is still at seen stage, so I decided to look for
> a good first issue from the repo to get more familiar with the process
> of patch submission and I found I would be interested in
> https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/635
>
> The Git suite CodingGuidelines suggest this about Error messages, but
> I found that git-compat-util.h contains die("Cannot handle files this
> big"); which breaks one of the rules
>
> I want to change it to die("cannot handle files this big");
>
> Someone should give me a go ahead on this

You can do it if you want, but this would be a very small contribution. This would be Ok for a microproject, but you have already worked on one, so you should probably aim at something a bit more complex. See the "Only ONE quality focused microproject per applicant" section in https://git.github.io/General-Microproject-Information/.

By the way, please put your possible mentors (Hariom and me) in Cc.

Thanks, Christian.