Change the git-init "Initialized empty Git repository" message and its variants to use gettext. This is one of the messages that could do with splitting up, I had a WIP patch to do that that began like this: const char *reinit_shared = _("Reinitialized existing shared Git repository in %s\n"); const char *init_shared = _("Initialized empty shared Git repository in %s\n"); const char *reinit_noshared = _("Reinitialized existing Git repository in %s\n"); const char *init_noshared = _("Initialized empty Git repository in %s\n"); But in the first round of gettextization I'm aiming to keep code changes to a minimum for ease of review. We can solicit input from translators about which messages that use too much sprintf-ing are troublesome, and change those later. Note that the TRANSLATORS comment doesn't use the usual Git style. This is because everything from "/* TRANSLATORS: " to "*/" will extracted as-is xgettext(1) and presented to translators, including newlines and leading "*"'s. There seems to be no way to change that, short of patching xgettext itself. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/init-db.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/init-db.c b/builtin/init-db.c index 9c08985..0224dee 100644 --- a/builtin/init-db.c +++ b/builtin/init-db.c @@ -348,9 +348,13 @@ int init_db(const char *template_dir, unsigned int flags) if (!(flags & INIT_DB_QUIET)) { const char *git_dir = get_git_dir(); int len = strlen(git_dir); - printf("%s%s Git repository in %s%s\n", - reinit ? "Reinitialized existing" : "Initialized empty", - shared_repository ? " shared" : "", + + /* TRANSLATORS: The first '%s' is either "Reinitialized + existing" or "Initialized empty", the second " shared" or + "", and the last '%s%s' is the verbatim directory name. */ + printf(_("%s%s Git repository in %s%s\n"), + reinit ? _("Reinitialized existing") : _("Initialized empty"), + shared_repository ? _(" shared") : "", git_dir, len && git_dir[len-1] != '/' ? "/" : ""); } -- 1.7.2.2.536.g3f548 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html