Re: [PATCH] fix a translation error in diff-tree
Alangi Derick <alangiderick@gmail.com> writes:
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> Signed-off-by: Alangi Derick <alangiderick@gmail.com>
> ---
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix a translation error in diff-tree
Among many ones you sent recently, this title looks the closest in shape to what SubmittingPatches expects to see. It however is not quite there; SubmittingPatches prefers to see an "<area>:" prefix so that output of "git shortlog --no-merges -100" would give the readers a better overview of the changes.
When "fix a translation error in diff-tree" appears among 100 other commits in "git shortlog" output, what kind of change would a reader imagine this to be, though?
My answer to that question would be: "There was an existing translation of diff-tree output, that was incorrect in some unspecified way, and this change corrects that breakage."
And that is not what is going on, so the change is mistitled. Perhaps
diff-tree.c: mark error strings for translation
or something, modelling after 8262aaa2 (config.c: mark error and warnings strings for translation, 2014-08-07), may be more appropriate.
Having said all that, I do not think we should break scripts by adding _("") to "git diff-tree" which is a plumbing command whose output is meant for machine consumption.
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> builtin/diff-tree.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/diff-tree.c b/builtin/diff-tree.c
> index 12b683d..602b5f9 100644
> --- a/builtin/diff-tree.c
> +++ b/builtin/diff-tree.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int stdin_diff_trees(struct tree *tree1, char *line, int len)
> unsigned char sha1[20];
> struct tree *tree2;
> if (len != 82 || !isspace(line[40]) || get_sha1_hex(line + 41, sha1))
> - return error("Need exactly two trees, separated by a space");
> + return error(_("Need exactly two trees, separated by a space"));
> tree2 = lookup_tree(sha1);
> if (!tree2 || parse_tree(tree2))
> return -1;
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static int diff_tree_stdin(char *line)
> return stdin_diff_commit((struct commit *)obj, line, len);
> if (obj->type == OBJ_TREE)
> return stdin_diff_trees((struct tree *)obj, line, len);
> - error("Object %s is a %s, not a commit or tree",
> + error(_("Object %s is a %s, not a commit or tree"),
> sha1_to_hex(sha1), typename(obj->type));
> return -1;
> }
Alangi Derick