On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 15:10, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.)
As I was (trying) to get across in the the commit message it'll make
the *'s part of the message. I.e.:
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.
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