Re: [PATCH] add a Makefile switch to avoid gettext translation in shell scripts

Alex Riesen [off-list ref] writes:

Some systems have gettext.sh (GNU gettext) installed, but it is either broken
or misconfigured in such a way so its output is not usable.
For instance, on this particular system, a Cygwin installations gettext
produces no output whatsoever.

In case the users of these systems are unable or not interested in fixing
them, setting the new Makefile switch should help:

    USE_FALLTHROUGH_GETTEXT_SCHEME=yes

This will replace the translation routines with fallthrough versions, which
currently used only for regression testing.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <redacted>
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I'll split this into two, the first one only to restructure the code and
the guts of this one that avoids the autodetection.

Also I'd rename this so that:

	$ make USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME=fallthrough
	$ make USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME=gnu

could be used to avoid extra and unnecessary runtime overhead when the
person building git knows what is on the system.