From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Alex Vandiver <alex@chmrr.net>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Doesn't disambiguate between 'external command failed' and 'command not found'
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:25:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vei23htzz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110706180026.GC17978@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 6 Jul 2011 14:00:26 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:58:03PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> > Like this? I've replaced "Check the #!-line of the git-%s script." with
>> > "Maybe git-%s is broken?" to be less technical and specific..
>>
>> Yeah, looks good to me (unless somebody wants to do something more
>> elaborate to catch other exec problems, but I personally don't think
>> it's worth the effort).
>
> One minor nit, though. I haven't been paying attention to the progress
> of the gettext topics, but should this message:
>
>> +static const char bad_interpreter_advice[] =
>> + "'%s' appears to be a git command, but we were not\n"
>> + "able to execute it. Maybe git-%s is broken?";
>
> Actually be inside _() for gettext?
I would mark it with N_() and then the calling site inside die() with _()
if I were doing this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 16:49 Doesn't disambiguate between 'external command failed' and 'command not found' Alex Vandiver
2011-07-05 20:41 ` Michael Schubert
2011-07-05 23:16 ` Jeff King
2011-07-05 23:22 ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 11:24 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-07-06 11:47 ` Michael Schubert
2011-07-06 17:58 ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 18:00 ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 23:25 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-07-08 10:08 ` Michael Schubert
2011-07-08 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-06 17:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-06 17:56 ` Jeff King
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