Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> - die(_("Failed to get upstream, if you want to record base commit automatically,\n" >> + die(_("failed to get upstream, if you want to record base commit automatically,\n" >> "please use git branch --set-upstream-to to track a remote branch.\n" >> "Or you could specify base commit by --base=<base-commit-id> manually.")); > > The capitalized "Or you..." is odd after s/Failed/failed/. It briefly bothered me, too, but after realizing that this is not the whole sentence, it no longer looks so bad to me. The thing is that "Failed" (or "failed") is *not* what starts the message. This one is die(), so what you'd actually see is fatal: failed to get upstream, ... to track a remote branch. Or you could ... with "fatal:" prefix.