From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] push: comment on a funny unbalanced option help
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:01:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzhy4zgfv.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad2d8f99-07a3-0191-88a2-c43081657988@web.de> ("René Scharfe"'s message of "Thu, 2 Aug 2018 20:46:31 +0200")
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
> Am 02.08.2018 um 18:54 schrieb Jeff King:
>> PS I actually would have made the rule simply "does it begin with a
>> '<'", which seems simpler still. If people accidentally write "<foo",
>> forgetting to close their brackets, that is a bug under both the
>> old and new behavior (just with slightly different outcomes).
>
> Good point.
Straying sideways into a tangent, but do we know if any locale wants
to use something other than "<>" as an enclosing braket around a
placeholder? This arg-help text, for example,
N_("refspec") without LIT-ARG-HELP
would be irritating for such a locale's translator, who cannot
defeat the "<>" that is hardcoded and not inside _()
s = literal ? "%s" : "<%s>";
that appear in parse-options.c::usage_argh().
Perhaps we should do _("<%s>") here? That way, the result would
hopefully be made consistent with
N_("<refspec>[:<expect>]") with LIT-ARG-HELP
which allows translator to use the bracket of the locale's choice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-02 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-01 18:43 [PATCH] push: comment on a funny unbalanced option help Junio C Hamano
2018-08-01 20:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-01 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-01 22:31 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 12:16 ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 14:21 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 15:06 ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 15:16 ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 15:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 15:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 16:50 ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 16:54 ` Jeff King
2018-08-02 18:46 ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] add, update-index: fix --chmod argument help René Scharfe
2018-08-02 20:41 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 20:59 ` Ramsay Jones
2018-08-02 21:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 21:04 ` Andrei Rybak
2018-08-02 21:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 19:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] difftool: remove angular brackets from " René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] pack-objects: specify --index-version argument help explicitly René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] send-pack: specify --force-with-lease " René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] shortlog: correct option help for -w René Scharfe
2018-08-02 19:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] parse-options: automatically infer PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP René Scharfe
2018-08-02 20:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-03 8:13 ` Kerry, Richard
2018-08-03 10:39 ` Kerry, Richard
2018-08-02 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-08-02 22:38 ` [PATCH] push: comment on a funny unbalanced option help René Scharfe
2018-08-03 15:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 15:44 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 15:59 ` René Scharfe
2018-08-02 16:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-02 20:33 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 20:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-03 4:42 ` René Scharfe
2018-08-03 15:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-01 22:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
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