From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:46:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sequencer.c: fix and unify error messages in rearrange_squash()
Message-ID: <xmqqwp3vqmz4.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <17346CCF8DEF41E790C96248408E07D2@PhilipOakley>

"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> Hi, 'Truncate' is real English, but it is not that common in normal usage.
>
> My dictionary suggests that it means 'cut off at the tip' such as a
> truncated cone. However the thesaurus is far more relaxed about the
> common idioms that truncate at the tail such as: clip, crop, cut
> short, trim, abbreviate, curtail, etc.
>
> So perhaps "could not trim '%s'".

Truncate is fine, as there is already another instance that barfs
with "cannot truncate" upon an error from ftruncate(), and the patch
merely matches the two error messages.