Ok, thanks for the correction. What about the other strings used for
error display? For example
die("cannot handle %s as a builtin", cmd);
Can't i change the "cannot" to "Cannot"? Or is there a problem with
that one too?
Regards
Alangi Derick Ndimnain
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> For the patch itself:
>>
>> $ grep -r usage *.c builtin/*.c |wc -l
>> 551
>> $ grep -r Usage *.c builtin/*.c |wc -l
>> 3
>>
>> The community agreed (maybe subconciously) to prefer lower case
>> for the 'usage' string, so I don't think this is an improvement.
>
> I tend to agree with the conclusion, but you need to be a bit
> careful here. These catch all the variable names that contain
> "[uU]sage" as substring, but we do not spell in-code variables
> with camelCase, so the former probably is over-counting. Things
> like "static const char usage[] = ..." are counted; so are calls
> to usage_with_options().
>
> If you look for the beginning of a string constant, you would get
> this:
>
> $ git grep '"usage' -- \*.c builtin/\*.c
> 12
> $ git grep '"Usage' -- \*.c builtin/\*.c
> 0
>
> The former undercounts the messages because many usage messages are
> produced by calling usage_with_options() these days.
>
> The latter being zero made me scratch my head and do this:
>
> $ git grep Usage -- \*.c builtin/\*.c
> commit.c: * Usage example:
> test-hashmap.c: * Usage: time echo "perfhas...
>
> I cannot find the third one you found for "Usage" in your example,
> though.
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