Re: [RFC/PATCH] sequencer: do not translate reflog messages

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Dscho

On 15/08/2022 21:20, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Junio,
> 
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Removing the N_() stops these strings from being extracted for
>>> translation, but there are several callers left that are still using
>>> _() to get the (now non-existent) translated string. I only had a
>>> quick look but I think we should remove the _() from all the callers
>>> of action_name().
>>
>> Thanks, that's all correct.
> 
> I am afraid that it is not.
> 
> In https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.2/sequencer.c#L502-L503, for
> example, we use the value returned by `action_name()` in a translated
> message:
> 
> 	error(_("your local changes would be overwritten by %s."),
> 		_(action_name(opts)));

Isn't this message using action_name() to get the name of the command 
that the user ran? As that name is not localized when the user runs the 
command I don't see that we should be translating it (and playing 
sentence lego with the result) in this message. I think the same applies 
to the message at line 689 that you mention below.

Best Wishes

Phillip

> Michael, I am afraid that we need more nuance here.
> 
> I do see that https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.2/sequencer.c#L4316
> calls `action_name()` without wrapping it in `_(...)`:
> 
> 	setenv(GIT_REFLOG_ACTION, action_name(opts), 0);
> 
> This suggests to me that the proper solution will be to carefully vet
> which `_(action_name())` calls should drop the `_(...)` and which ones
> should not, and to leave the `N_(...)` parts alone.
> 
> The affected calls seem to fall into these categories:
> 
> - reflog (do _not_ translate the action name)
> 
> - parameter of `error_resolve_conflict()` (do _not_ translate the
>    parameter)
> 
> - error messages talking about `git <command>` (do _not_ translate the
>    action name)
> 
> - error messages talking about the operation (_do_ translate the action
>    name)
> 
> My take on which lines need to be patched:
> 
> - https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.2/sequencer.c#L500
> - https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.2/sequencer.c#L538
> - https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.2/sequencer.c#L2384
> - https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.2/sequencer.c#L2392
> - https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.2/sequencer.c#L3715
> 
> but not
> 
> - https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.2/sequencer.c#L503
> - https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.2/sequencer.c#L689
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho