From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Capitalization and punctuation fixes to some user visible messages
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:10:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZBzAVMCOadgE1sa8@ugly> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqttyb6w3j.fsf@gitster.g>
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 01:39:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> require_clean_work_tree(the_repository,
>> N_("pull with rebase"),
>> - _("please commit or stash them."), 1, 0);
>> + _("Please commit or stash them."), 1, 0);
>
>Our friendly CodingGuidelines is fairly clear on what to do to a
>single sentence error message like this one: [...]
>
i know. that's why the commit message makes a point of stating that it's
making an exception.
the reasoning is basically that it's not *really* an error message, it's
just abusing the machinery. you obviously noticed that yourself,
suggesting to turn these strings into advice messages. but that kinda
feels like overkill to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-23 21:11 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 [this message]
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 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Capitalization and punctuation fixes to some user visible messages Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-04-28 18:57 ` 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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