Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> N_("Show blank SHA-1 for boundary commits (Default: off)")),
>> N_("Blank object names of boundary commits (Default: off)")),
>
> Is there a reason you dropped "show" here? Perhaps your
> intention is to use "blank" as a verb, but it read a bit
> awkwardly to me.
You guessed my intention correctly. By using the word "blank" as a
verb (i.e. to fill the space, which should ordinarily contain
something meaningful, with whitespace instead), I can shorten "Show
blank" to compensate the lengthening of the message caused by
replacing "SHA-1" with "object name".
It also is more correct. There is no "blank SHA-1"; blank cannot be
a valid SHA-1 hash value. We are showing blank instead of SHA-1,
and I found that "blank" as a verb exactly has that meaning, which
was convenient.
The above is *NOT* to defend the choice of the exact phasing I used,
but to explain the criteria we need to use to come up with a better
alternative (in other words, why "show blank object name for..." is
a better replacement).
A better phrasing to replace it is of course welcome.
Thanks.
