Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Change the error message emitted when write_object_file() fails to >> make more sense. At this point we're not writing a "tag file" (which >> as an aside we never do, we just write to stdout). We are writing an >> annotated tag object, let's say that instead. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> builtin/mktag.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/builtin/mktag.c b/builtin/mktag.c >> index ff7ac8e0e5..603b55aca0 100644 >> --- a/builtin/mktag.c >> +++ b/builtin/mktag.c >> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ int cmd_mktag(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) >> die("invalid tag signature file"); >> >> if (write_object_file(buf.buf, buf.len, tag_type, &result) < 0) >> - die("unable to write tag file"); >> + die("unable to write annotated tag object"); > > "write an annotated tag object"? Actually, there is no such thing as an "unannotated tag object". Perhaps _("unable to create a tag object")? > > It is not just this call to die(), but we'd eventually want to _(l10n/i18n) > these messages. Perhaps in a separate step but on all messages fed > to die/error/warn in this file. > >> >> strbuf_release(&buf); >> printf("%s\n", oid_to_hex(&result));