Re: [PATCH 1/3] builtin/log: downcase the beginning of error messages

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 3:11 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
> @@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ static void get_patch_ids(struct rev_info *rev, struct patch_ids *ids)
>         if (rev->pending.nr != 2)
> -               die(_("Need exactly one range."));
> +               die(_("need exactly one range."));

Perhaps drop the trailing period while you're here?

> @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ static void get_patch_ids(struct rev_info *rev, struct patch_ids *ids)
>         if ((flags1 & UNINTERESTING) == (flags2 & UNINTERESTING))
> -               die(_("Not a range."));
> +               die(_("not a range."));

Ditto.

> @@ -1331,16 +1331,16 @@ static struct commit *get_base_commit(const char *base_commit,
>                         if (get_oid(upstream, &oid))
> -                               die(_("Failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), upstream);
> +                               die(_("failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), upstream);

Ditto.

>                         if (!base_list || base_list->next)
> -                               die(_("Could not find exact merge base."));
> +                               die(_("could not find exact merge base."));

Ditto.

> -                       die(_("Failed to get upstream, if you want to record base commit automatically,\n"
> +                       die(_("failed to get upstream, if you want to record base commit automatically,\n"
>                               "please use git branch --set-upstream-to to track a remote branch.\n"
>                               "Or you could specify base commit by --base=<base-commit-id> manually."));

The capitalized "Or you..." is odd after s/Failed/failed/. I wonder if
the period in the first sentence should be replaced by a semicolon and
then "Or you..." downcased (and the final period dropped):

    die(_("failed to ... automatically,\n"
    "please use ... branch;\n"
    "or you ... manually"));