Re: [PATCH 2/2] builtin/repo: fix table alignment for UTF-8 characters

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 16, 2025, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqqztxdip4.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CANYiYbFcap=c8xDy-=ZyaY3U4-jU9OEe18LPgTEAHi2wx2M0VQ@mail.gmail.com>

Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> writes:

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> t1901 already includes test cases to safeguard the output of the
> "git repo structure" command.  I could add a new test case to
> validate the output when localized in Chinese (as shown below),
> but such a test would be inherently unstable, because it risks
> breaking at the end of every release cycle whenever translations
> change.

I haven't considered the i18n aspect. We already compare program output with expected output, so a change in a message has to be updated together with the test that covers the code path, but po/ updates tend to come too late for test updates, so the problem is much more serious.

OK. Let's omit this feature from end-to-end testing at least for now. Thanks.