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Re: [PATCH] gc: don't translate literal commands

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 20, 2022, 19:55 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 01:43:56PM -0600, Alex Henrie wrote:
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> > So maybe something like:
> >
> >   There are no human-readable parts of these strings; the command you
> >   type is still "git maintenance" even in other languages.
> 
> By "placeholders" I mean "things in angle brackets", like some of the
> other usage strings in this file have. Maybe "argument placeholders"
> would be more clear. I like that term a little better than the term
> "human-readable parts" because these strings are part of the user
> interface, so humans have to read them. But I really don't care
> whether there's any explanation in the commit message at all. Junio
> could just drop the sentence altogether when he commits the patch.

Yeah. It was mostly that the term actively misled me. ;) Just the subject (with "literal command") would probably be enough in this case.

-Peff
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  1. gc: don't translate literal commandsAlex Henrie, Sep 20, 2022
  2. Jeff KingSep 20, 2022
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  4. Jeff KingSep 20, 2022
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