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Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] surround %s with quotes when failed to lookup commit

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 3, 2023, 00:00 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
<1f7c62a8870433792076fae30d6c4dc4b61a00d8.1685366301.git.dyroneteng@gmail.com>
Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com> writes:
> From: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
>
> The output maybe become confused to recognize if the user
Probably "may become confusing to".
> accidentally mistook an extra opening space, like:
>
>    $git commit --fixup=" 6d6360b67e99c2fd82d64619c971fdede98ee74b"
>    fatal: could not lookup commit  6d6360b67e99c2fd82d64619c971fdede98ee74b
I'd prefer a space between the prompt "$" and the command "git".
>
> and it will be better if we surround the %s specifier with single quotes.

Indeed. Everything else in the message I am responding to, I am 100% happy with.

Will queue with manual fixups.
Thanks.
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> Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
> ---
>  builtin/commit.c     | 6 +++---
>  builtin/merge-tree.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
> index e67c4be2..9ab57ea1 100644
> --- a/builtin/commit.c
> +++ b/builtin/commit.c
> @@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
>  			struct commit *c;
>  			c = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(squash_message);
>  			if (!c)
> -				die(_("could not lookup commit %s"), squash_message);
> +				die(_("could not lookup commit '%s'"), squash_message);
>  			ctx.output_encoding = get_commit_output_encoding();
>  			repo_format_commit_message(the_repository, c,
>  						   "squash! %s\n\n", &sb,
> @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
>  		char *fmt;
>  		commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(fixup_commit);
>  		if (!commit)
> -			die(_("could not lookup commit %s"), fixup_commit);
> +			die(_("could not lookup commit '%s'"), fixup_commit);
>  		ctx.output_encoding = get_commit_output_encoding();
>  		fmt = xstrfmt("%s! %%s\n\n", fixup_prefix);
>  		repo_format_commit_message(the_repository, commit, fmt, &sb,
> @@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ static const char *read_commit_message(const char *name)
>  
>  	commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(name);
>  	if (!commit)
> -		die(_("could not lookup commit %s"), name);
> +		die(_("could not lookup commit '%s'"), name);
>  	out_enc = get_commit_output_encoding();
>  	return repo_logmsg_reencode(the_repository, commit, NULL, out_enc);
>  }
> diff --git a/builtin/merge-tree.c b/builtin/merge-tree.c
> index b8f8a8b5..4325897a 100644
> --- a/builtin/merge-tree.c
> +++ b/builtin/merge-tree.c
> @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ static int real_merge(struct merge_tree_options *o,
>  
>  		base_commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(merge_base);
>  		if (!base_commit)
> -			die(_("could not lookup commit %s"), merge_base);
> +			die(_("could not lookup commit '%s'"), merge_base);
>  
>  		opt.ancestor = merge_base;
>  		base_tree = repo_get_commit_tree(the_repository, base_commit);
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