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Re: Is there any interest in localizing term delimiters in git messages?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 19, 2023, 19:18 UTC
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Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com> writes:
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> Yeah, I think it should be an untranslated trace2 message rather
> than an error.  You're right, the user cannot do anything with
> that information -- and by emitting a "trivial" result, we fall
> back to the normal behavior and cause the client to a regular
> scan. So there is no reason to scare the user.

Thanks for a quick response. Note that this was something we discovered while talking about i18n and no immediate action is required---it is not like we saw a report that tells us that end users are actively getting confused.

THanks.
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Message 9 of 12 in “Is there any interest in localizing term delimiters in git messages?”
  1. Alexander ShopovOct 17, 2023
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2023
  3. Jiang XinOct 18, 2023
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 18, 2023
  5. commit: do not use cryptic "new_index" in end-user facing messagesJunio C Hamano, Oct 18, 2023
  6. Jiang XinOct 19, 2023
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 19, 2023
  8. Jeff HostetlerOct 19, 2023
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 19, 2023
  10. Torsten BögershausenOct 19, 2023
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 19, 2023
  12. Peter KreftingOct 21, 2023

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