Re: [PATCH] t5510: skip tests under GETTEXT_POISON build

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

[...] Back when 5e9637c6 (i18n: add infrastructure for
translating Git with gettext, 2011-11-18) introduced the former,
test_have_prereq did not support a negated prerequisite, so the
commit added GETTEXT_POISON prerequisite; if we had the modern
test_have_prereq, we would have written

    test_expect_success GETTEXT_POISON '...'

that appear in t0205 as

    test_expect_success !C_LOCALE_OUTPUT '...'

I would think.

Maybe the names of the test prerequisites should be merged. I can't
think of a rea

As for the GETTEXT_POISON facility in general, I haven't worked much
if at all on the i18n toolchain since I initially wrote the gettext
support so I think at this point it's for others to say whether stuff
like this is useful.

But for what it's worth the v1.7.4.1-65-gbb946bb commit explains
better what it's for:

    This is a debugging aid for people who are working on the i18n part of
    the system, to make sure that they are not marking plumbing messages
    that should never be translated with _().

I.e. so the person gettext-izing something can actively spot issues
with marking strings for translations right away.