Re: [Improvements on messages 0/5] Disambuiguate between options and commands
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2024-02-16 18:43:35
Alexander Shopov [off-list ref] writes:
These are trivial fixes to messages. They make sure commands and options are markes as such. This will help translators and end users. This will also reduce the special cases Jiang Xin keeps for git-po-helper which will ease maintenance. I am basing these on maint but I have also checked that they ar still relevant by cherry picking on top of latest and next.
I've looked at all of them and they looked sensible.
The changes look like this:
- die(_("something option something: %s"), arg);
+ die(_("something --option something: %s"), arg);
It is not a fault of this patch, but wasn't the concensus that the
ideal form would be more like this:
die(_("something %s something: %s"), "--option", arg);
in order to completely avoid tempting translators into touching
"--option", IIRC?
These patches do not make things worse, so I am willing to say they
are strict improvements and the series is a good first step if we
wanted to follow through to eject option names out of translatable
strings later.
Thanks.