Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] i18n: am: mark more strings for translation

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

 	-b|--binary)
-		echo >&2 "The $1 option has been a no-op for long time, and"
-		echo >&2 "it will be removed. Please do not use it anymore."
+		echo >&2 $(gettext "The -b option has been a no-op for long time, and
+it will be removed. Please do not use it anymore.")

... that this changes the message when the --binary option is passed.
Before this patch, it says

	The --binary option has been a no-op for a long time, and ...

After the patch, it says

	The -b option has been a no-op for a long time, and ...

Intentional?  That may be a good change or a bad one (I haven't
thought clearly about it), but it seems at least worth mentioning.
Cc-ing Thomas in case he has advice.

If we really care we could printf $1, but I think we usually do

	The -b/--binary option has been...

in a case like this, especially in codepaths that no longer has an
easy access to $1 after parsing the command line but knows that
either one of them is given from the parse result, and that would be
an appropriate solution for this particular one as well.