Re: [PATCH] push: comment on a funny unbalanced option help

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

Am 02.08.2018 um 22:01 schrieb Junio C Hamano:

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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?

Bulgarian seems to use capitals instead; here are some examples found
with git grep -A1 'msgid "<' po/:

po/bg.po:msgid "<remote>"
po/bg.po-msgstr "ОТДАЛЕЧЕНО_ХРАНИЛИЩЕ"
...

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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.

I did not consider locales that do not use any kind of bracket, but
I guess _("<%s>") would work for them, too, in this context.  When
the locale's convention is to upcase, for example, the arg-help text
that is not marked with PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP would be upcased,
and _("<%s>") in the usage_argh() can be translated to "%s", which
passes the translated (i.e. upcased) arg-help text through.