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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] builtin/log: downcase the beginning of error messages
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:40:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmumnpneh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRhk-0LBCmUQ4LszJrnmnXCDz7HxWqDnKX53woBYhr-KQ@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:24:15 -0500")

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

>> -                       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/.

It briefly bothered me, too, but after realizing that this is not
the whole sentence, it no longer looks so bad to me.  The thing is
that "Failed" (or "failed") is *not* what starts the message.  This
one is die(), so what you'd actually see is

	fatal: failed to get upstream, ... to track a remote branch.
	Or you could ...

with "fatal:" prefix.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-22 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-22 20:11 [PATCH 0/3] format-patch --no-clobber Junio C Hamano
2019-02-22 20:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] builtin/log: downcase the beginning of error messages Junio C Hamano
2019-02-22 20:24   ` Eric Sunshine
2019-02-22 20:40     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-02-22 20:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] format-patch: notice failure to open cover letter for writing Junio C Hamano
2019-02-22 20:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] format-patch: --no-clobber refrains from overwriting output files Junio C Hamano
2019-02-22 20:38   ` Eric Sunshine
2019-02-23 13:34   ` Jeff King
2019-03-12 20:53     ` Ntentos Stavros

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