Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >>> This is because everything from "/* TRANSLATORS: " to "*/" will >>> extracted as-is xgettext(1) and presented to translators, including >>> newlines and leading "*"'s. [...] > 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. Ah, so you meant "not including newlines but including leading '*''s". Hmm, this is annoying. Searching existing projects, it seems that a lot of people are just not using the TRANSLATORS: feature except for one-line comments. Thanks for the explanation. -- 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