Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > blame belonging to the group of > ancillaryinterrogators and not to plumbinginterrogators > should have localized error messages? Unless running under --porcelain option to be driven by scripts, we expect that we are talking to a human user, so using "_(msg)" is very much appropriate for that case. A possibly problematic script might do something like this: git blame --porcelain "$1" 2>&1 | awk "$awkScript" and the $awkScript may check the input lines that do not match the expected pattern the output lines from the command follow and act on them, though. _(msg) is unwelcome to such a script [*1*]. I suspect the above problem is likely to be theoretical. People would be more sloppy and write this instead: git blame --porcelain "$1" | awk "$awkScript" and let the problem pass unnoticed, affecting the later parts of their processing ;-). And "_(msg)", not "msg", would help. [Footnote] *1* ... and with possible interleaving of output that came to the standard output and the standard error, such parsing by $awkScript would not be a reliable way to do this anyway. A truly careful one has to be written along the lines of: git blame --porcelain "$1" >"$tmp" && awk "$awkScript" <"$tmp" anyway. > Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > builtin/blame.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c > index 17d30d0..ca4ba6f 100644 > --- a/builtin/blame.c > +++ b/builtin/blame.c > @@ -2700,7 +2700,7 @@ parse_done: > * uninteresting. > */ > if (prepare_revision_walk(&revs)) > - die("revision walk setup failed"); > + die(_("revision walk setup failed")); > > if (is_null_sha1(sb.final->object.sha1)) { > o = sb.final->util; -- 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