Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > 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. How would it cope with the following? /* 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. */ The leading column of stars makes it easier to distinguish code from comments. (Plus I am not too happy to read code with two inconsistent comment styles used.) -- 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