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From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] Capitalization and punctuation fixes to some user visible messages
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:56:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230428125649.1719796-3-oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230428125649.1719796-1-oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>

These are conscious violations of the usual rules for error messages,
based on this reasoning:
- If an error message is directly followed by another sentence, it needs
  to be properly terminated with a period, lest the grammar looks broken
  and becomes hard to read.
- That second sentence isn't actually an error message any more, so it
  should abide to conventional language rules for good looks and
  legibility. Arguably, these should be converted to advice messages
  (which the user can squelch, too), but that's a much bigger effort to
  get right.
- Neither of these apply to the first hunk in do_exec(), but this
  two-line message looks just too much like a real sentence to not
  terminate it. Also, leaving it alone would make it asymmetrical to
  the other hunk.

Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

---
v2:
- tried to make commit message more convincing
- put it last in the series, to make the less controversial changes
  easier to apply
---
 builtin/pull.c | 2 +-
 sequencer.c    | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c
index 56f679d94a..bb2ddc93ab 100644
--- a/builtin/pull.c
+++ b/builtin/pull.c
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ int cmd_pull(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		if (!opt_autostash)
 			require_clean_work_tree(the_repository,
 				N_("pull with rebase"),
-				_("please commit or stash them."), 1, 0);
+				_("Please commit or stash them."), 1, 0);
 
 		if (get_rebase_fork_point(&rebase_fork_point, repo, *refspecs))
 			oidclr(&rebase_fork_point);
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 0677c9ab09..21748bbfb0 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -3629,13 +3629,13 @@ static int do_exec(struct repository *r, const char *command_line)
 			  "\n"),
 			command_line,
 			dirty ? _("and made changes to the index and/or the "
-				"working tree\n") : "");
+				"working tree.\n") : "");
 		if (status == 127)
 			/* command not found */
 			status = 1;
 	} else if (dirty) {
 		warning(_("execution succeeded: %s\nbut "
-			  "left changes to the index and/or the working tree\n"
+			  "left changes to the index and/or the working tree.\n"
 			  "Commit or stash your changes, and then run\n"
 			  "\n"
 			  "  git rebase --continue\n"
-- 
2.40.0.152.g15d061e6df


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-28 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-23 16:22 [PATCH 1/3] Capitalization and punctuation fixes to some user visible messages Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] sequencer: actually translate report in do_exec() Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 20:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-23 21:20     ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 21:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-23 21:53         ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-23 16:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] advice: translate all actions in error_resolve_conflict() Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-03-24 14:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-23 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] Capitalization and punctuation fixes to some user visible messages Junio C Hamano
2023-03-23 21:10   ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-04-28 12:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] advice: handle "rebase" in error_resolve_conflict() Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-04-28 12:56   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] sequencer: actually translate report in do_exec() Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-04-28 19:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-28 12:56   ` Oswald Buddenhagen [this message]
2023-04-28 18:57     ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Capitalization and punctuation fixes to some user visible messages Junio C Hamano
2023-04-28 19:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-28 19:01   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] advice: handle "rebase" in error_resolve_conflict() Junio C Hamano
2023-04-29  7:18     ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-04-30  5:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-07 17:09   ` [PATCH v3] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-07 20:20     ` Junio C Hamano

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