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* [PATCH 00/11] [RFH] Introduce support for GETTEXT_POISON=rot13
@ 2021-01-12  8:47 Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
  2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 01/11] tests: remove unnecessary GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=false constructs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
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From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget @ 2021-01-12  8:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git
  Cc: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy,
	Ævar Arnfjörð, SZEDER Gábor,
	Johannes Schindelin

This patch series is incomplete because I lack the time to finish it, and I
hope that there are interested developers who can help with it.

In https://lore.kernel.org/git/20181022153633.31757-1-pclouds@gmail.com/,
Duy proposed introducing a fake language they called "Ook" to be able to
test translations better. "Ook" would "translate" messages without any
printf format specifiers to "Eek", otherwise convert all upper-case letters
to "Ook" and lower-case letters to "ook".

Gábor replied with a different proposal that has the advantage of being
bijective, i.e. it is possible to reconstruct the untranslated message from
the translated one.

Ævar suggested recently
[https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqim836v6m.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/T/#m6fdc43d4f1eb3f20f841096c59e985b69c84875e]
that this whole GETTEXT_POISON business is totally useless.

I do not believe that it is useless. To back up my belief with something
tangible, I implemented a GETTEXT_POISON=rot13 mode and ran the test suite
to see whether we erroneously expect translated messages where they aren't,
and related problems.

And the experiment delivered. It is just a demonstration (I only addressed a
handful of the test suite failures, 124 test scripts still need to be
inspected to find out why they fail), of course. Yet I think that finding
e.g. the missing translations of sha1dc-cb and parse-options show that it
would be very useful to complete this patch series and then use the rot13
mode in our CI jobs (instead of the current GETTEXT_POISON=true mode, which
really is less useful).

Note: in its current form, this patch series fails t0013 and t9902 in the
GETTEXT_POISON job
[https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/836/checks?check_run_id=1686715225#step:4:1590],
therefore it cannot be integrated into Git as-is, even if it does not switch
the GETTEXT_POISON job to use the rot13 mode yet.

Sadly, even though I want to see this patch series go further, I am
operating under serious time constraints and therefore had to admit to
myself, grudgingly, that I can't. So again, I hope that somebody else can
push this effort further.

Johannes Schindelin (11):
  tests: remove unnecessary GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=false constructs
  Support GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=rot13
  parse-options: add forgotten translations
  sha1dc: mark forgotten message for translation
  t0006: use `test_i18ncmp` only for C locales
  t0041: stop using `test_i18ngrep` on untranslated output
  t0027: mark a function as requiring the C locale
  t6301: do not expect the output of `for-each-ref` to be translated
  GETTEXT_POISON=rot13: do compare the output in `test_i18ncmp`
  GETTEXT_POISON=rot13: perform actual checks in `test_i18ngrep`
  test-tool i18n: do not complain about empty messages

 Makefile                       |   1 +
 gettext.c                      |  65 ++++++++++++++++-
 gettext.h                      |   5 +-
 parse-options-cb.c             |   4 +-
 sha1dc_git.c                   |   2 +-
 t/helper/test-i18n.c           | 129 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/helper/test-tool.c           |   1 +
 t/helper/test-tool.h           |   1 +
 t/t0006-date.sh                |   4 +-
 t/t0017-env-helper.sh          |   6 +-
 t/t0027-auto-crlf.sh           |   3 +
 t/t0041-usage.sh               |   2 +-
 t/t1305-config-include.sh      |   6 +-
 t/t6301-for-each-ref-errors.sh |   2 +-
 t/t7201-co.sh                  |   4 +-
 t/t9902-completion.sh          |   1 -
 t/test-lib-functions.sh        |  14 +++-
 t/test-lib.sh                  |   1 +
 18 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 t/helper/test-i18n.c


base-commit: 72c4083ddf91b489b7b7b812df67ee8842177d98
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-836%2Fdscho%2Fgettext-poison-should-rot13-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-836/dscho/gettext-poison-should-rot13-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/836
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2021-01-12 19:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 03/11] parse-options: add forgotten translations Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 04/11] sha1dc: mark forgotten message for translation Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-01-12 11:37   ` Jeff King
2021-01-12 19:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-15 15:43     ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-01-15 16:29       ` Jeff King
2021-01-18 14:26         ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-01-18 21:06           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-19 15:52             ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 05/11] t0006: use `test_i18ncmp` only for C locales Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 06/11] t0041: stop using `test_i18ngrep` on untranslated output Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 07/11] t0027: mark a function as requiring the C locale Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 08/11] t6301: do not expect the output of `for-each-ref` to be translated Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 09/11] GETTEXT_POISON=rot13: do compare the output in `test_i18ncmp` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-01-12 19:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-15 15:44     ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-01-15 19:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-18 14:36         ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 10/11] GETTEXT_POISON=rot13: perform actual checks in `test_i18ngrep` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-01-12  8:47 ` [PATCH 11/11] test-tool i18n: do not complain about empty messages Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-01-12 11:34 ` [PATCH 00/11] [RFH] Introduce support for GETTEXT_POISON=rot13 Jeff King
2021-01-12 19:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-13  7:32     ` Jeff King
2021-01-16  6:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-12 13:32 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-01-15 16:13   ` Johannes Schindelin

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