Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] bisect--helper: normalize format string of yes/no prompts
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Dec 16, 2021, 21:39 UTC
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"Kashav Madan via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
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> From: Kashav Madan <kshvmdn@gmail.com> > > Both callers of git_prompt in bisect--helper.c ask the user for yes/no > confirmation. They both place the question mark after the choices, > however this is inconsistent with how most UNIX-y tools do it. Update > the format string to exclude the choices from the question.
Is there somewhere that the claim can be confirmed? I am not having much luck with queries like
https://www.google.com/search?q=prompt+question+mark+and+choices
that gave https://home.csulb.edu/~murdock/choice.html the most relevant page X-<.
I personally do not think this step is worth doing, but in any case, NEVER touch po/* directory when you are updating code and strings in the code. It is something our i18n coordinator will do at certain point in the release cycle.