Re: [PATCH 1/1] Improve unpack trees error text
Hi,
Thanks for the contribution. Looks like we were on similar wavelengths, as I also contributed a fix to this phrasing just a quarter of a day before you: https://public-inbox.org/git/466aead9af6516ff94a5d217e58ab894e63088b7.1572973651.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 3:15 PM naiduv via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: naiduv <naiduvenkat@gmail.com>
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> Signed-off-by: naiduv <naiduvenkat@gmail.com>
> ---
> t/t7110-reset-merge.sh | 4 ++--
> unpack-trees.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t7110-reset-merge.sh b/t/t7110-reset-merge.sh
> index a82a07a04a..9b2298bfb3 100755
> --- a/t/t7110-reset-merge.sh
> +++ b/t/t7110-reset-merge.sh
> @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ test_expect_success 'reset --merge fails with changes in file it touches' '
> sed -e "s/line 1/changed line 1/" <file1 >file3 &&
> mv file3 file1 &&
> test_must_fail git reset --merge HEAD^ 2>err.log &&
> - grep file1 err.log | grep "not uptodate"
> + grep file1 err.log | grep "not up to date"
> '
>
> # The next test will test the following:
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ test_expect_success 'reset --keep fails with changes in file it touches' '
> sed -e "s/line 1/changed line 1/" <file1 >file3 &&
> mv file3 file1 &&
> test_must_fail git reset --keep HEAD^ 2>err.log &&
> - grep file1 err.log | grep "not uptodate"
> + grep file1 err.log | grep "not up to date"
> '
>
> test_expect_success 'setup 3 different branches' '
> diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c
> index 33ea7810d8..74c348d40e 100644
> --- a/unpack-trees.c
> +++ b/unpack-trees.c
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static const char *unpack_plumbing_errors[NB_UNPACK_TREES_ERROR_TYPES] = {
> "Entry '%s' would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge.",
>
> /* ERROR_NOT_UPTODATE_FILE */
> - "Entry '%s' not uptodate. Cannot merge.",
> + "Entry '%s' is not up to date. Cannot merge.",According to https://writingexplained.org/up-to-date-hyphenated, "up to date" is an adverb phrase (which would not be correct to use here), while "up-to-date" is the adjectival phrase.
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> /* ERROR_NOT_UPTODATE_DIR */
> "Updating '%s' would lose untracked files in it",
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static const char *unpack_plumbing_errors[NB_UNPACK_TREES_ERROR_TYPES] = {
> "Entry '%s' overlaps with '%s'. Cannot bind.",
>
> /* ERROR_SPARSE_NOT_UPTODATE_FILE */
> - "Entry '%s' not uptodate. Cannot update sparse checkout.",
> + "Entry '%s' is not up to date. Cannot update sparse checkout.",
>
> /* ERROR_WOULD_LOSE_ORPHANED_OVERWRITTEN */
> "Working tree file '%s' would be overwritten by sparse checkout update.",This patch misses a similar usage within gitk that would need to be updated for this change.
