# Re: \[GSoC\] \[PATCH v2 2/4\] submodule: prefix die messages with 'fatal'

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-07-08 15:17:56 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/07/7894455
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/07/7894455/t.md

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Atharva Raykar [ref] writes:

> The standard `die()` function that is used in C code prefixes all the
> messages passed to it with 'fatal: '. This does not happen with the
> `die` used in 'git-submodule.sh'.
>
> Let's prefix each of the shell die messages with 'fatal: ' so that when
> they are converted to C code, the error messages stay the same as before
> the conversion.

Sounds good.  More importantly, the error messages from the
resulting system would become more uniform---after all, the end
users would not care if scripted part of the system is emitting the
error messages, or the message comes from a built-in version.
```