On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:23 PM SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Once upon a time a GETTEXT_POISON build job failed on me, and the > error message: > > error: # GETTEXT POISON # > > was not particularly useful. Ook wouldn't help with that... Oook? > So I came up with the following couple of patches that implement a > "scrambled" format that makes the poisoned output legible for humans > but still gibberish for machine consumption (i.e. grep-ing the text > part would still fail): > > error: U.n.a.b.l.e. .t.o. .c.r.e.a.t.e. .'./home/szeder/src/git/t/trash directory.t1404-update-ref-errors/.git/packed-refs...l.o.c.k.'.:. .File exists... > > I have been running GETTEXT_POISON builds with this series for some > months now, but haven't submitted it yet, because I haven't decided > yet whether including strings (paths, refs, etc.) in the output as > they are is a feature or a flaw. A feature to me. The only thing that got through and but should not be grep-able is strerror(). But that's orthogonal to this scrambling stuff. > And because it embarrassingly leaks every single translated string... :) Easy to fix. I hope this means you have no more excuse to not push this forward ;-) -- Duy
