When an error message informs the user about an incorrect command
invocation, it should refer to "arguments", not "parameters".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
---
Recently, I was greated by an accidental `git tag` invocation:
$ git tag one two three
fatal: too many params
This is bad in two regards: (1) There's a techie-speak abbreviation
in a user-visible text, (2) and it is wrong terminology to refer to
"parameters" when "arguments" would be correct.
Then I looked at every single occurrence of "parameter" in Documentation/
and half-way through the rest and wanted to correct all incorrect uses,
but things are by far not as clear-cut as I hoped.
So, I stopped here and fixed the one pain point that triggered the voyage,
which I hope is not too controversal.
bisect.c | 2 +-
builtin/notes.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
builtin/stash.c | 2 +-
builtin/tag.c | 2 +-
t/t3301-notes.sh | 6 +++---
t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh | 4 ++--
6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bisect.c b/bisect.c
index 75ea0eb57f..ae48d19acf 100644
--- a/bisect.c
+++ b/bisect.c
@@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ enum bisect_error bisect_next_all(struct repository *r, const char *prefix)
if (!all) {
fprintf(stderr, _("No testable commit found.\n"
- "Maybe you started with bad path parameters?\n"));
+ "Maybe you started with bad path arguments?\n"));
return BISECT_NO_TESTABLE_COMMIT;
}
diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c
index 2987c08a2e..08b8914d29 100644
--- a/builtin/notes.c
+++ b/builtin/notes.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static int list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
git_notes_list_usage, 0);
if (1 < argc) {
- error(_("too many parameters"));
+ error(_("too many arguments"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_list_usage, options);
}
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0);
if (2 < argc) {
- error(_("too many parameters"));
+ error(_("too many arguments"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_add_usage, options);
}
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static int copy(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (from_stdin || rewrite_cmd) {
if (argc) {
- error(_("too many parameters"));
+ error(_("too many arguments"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_copy_usage, options);
} else {
return notes_copy_from_stdin(force, rewrite_cmd);
@@ -514,11 +514,11 @@ static int copy(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
}
if (argc < 1) {
- error(_("too few parameters"));
+ error(_("too few arguments"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_copy_usage, options);
}
if (2 < argc) {
- error(_("too many parameters"));
+ error(_("too many arguments"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_copy_usage, options);
}
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ static int append_edit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0);
if (2 < argc) {
- error(_("too many parameters"));
+ error(_("too many arguments"));
usage_with_options(usage, options);
}
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ static int show(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
0);
if (1 < argc) {
- error(_("too many parameters"));
+ error(_("too many arguments"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_show_usage, options);
}
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ static int merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
error(_("must specify a notes ref to merge"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_merge_usage, options);
} else if (!do_merge && argc) {
- error(_("too many parameters"));
+ error(_("too many arguments"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_merge_usage, options);
}
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ static int prune(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
0);
if (argc) {
- error(_("too many parameters"));
+ error(_("too many arguments"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_prune_usage, options);
}
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ static int get_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
git_notes_get_ref_usage, 0);
if (argc) {
- error(_("too many parameters"));
+ error(_("too many arguments"));
usage_with_options(git_notes_get_ref_usage, options);
}
diff --git a/builtin/stash.c b/builtin/stash.c
index 9bc85f91cd..60813d70d3 100644
--- a/builtin/stash.c
+++ b/builtin/stash.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int clear_stash(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
if (argc)
- return error(_("git stash clear with parameters is "
+ return error(_("git stash clear with arguments is "
"unimplemented"));
return do_clear_stash();
diff --git a/builtin/tag.c b/builtin/tag.c
index e8b85eefd8..482d1b7d28 100644
--- a/builtin/tag.c
+++ b/builtin/tag.c
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ int cmd_tag(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
object_ref = argc == 2 ? argv[1] : "HEAD";
if (argc > 2)
- die(_("too many params"));
+ die(_("too many arguments"));
if (get_oid(object_ref, &object))
die(_("Failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), object_ref);
diff --git a/t/t3301-notes.sh b/t/t3301-notes.sh
index 4af881f0ba..d742be8840 100755
--- a/t/t3301-notes.sh
+++ b/t/t3301-notes.sh
@@ -1293,11 +1293,11 @@ test_expect_success 'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF overrides config' '
grep "replacement note 3" actual
'
-test_expect_success 'git notes copy diagnoses too many or too few parameters' '
+test_expect_success 'git notes copy diagnoses too many or too few arguments' '
test_must_fail git notes copy 2>error &&
- test_i18ngrep "too few parameters" error &&
+ test_i18ngrep "too few arguments" error &&
test_must_fail git notes copy one two three 2>error &&
- test_i18ngrep "too many parameters" error
+ test_i18ngrep "too many arguments" error
'
test_expect_success 'git notes get-ref expands refs/heads/main to refs/notes/refs/heads/main' '
diff --git a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
index 7bcde054d7..43608abcb7 100755
--- a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
+++ b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
@@ -578,9 +578,9 @@ test_expect_success 'skipping away from skipped commit' '
test "$para3" = "$PARA_HASH3"
'
-test_expect_success 'erroring out when using bad path parameters' '
+test_expect_success 'erroring out when using bad path arguments' '
test_must_fail git bisect start $PARA_HASH7 $HASH1 -- foobar 2> error.txt &&
- test_i18ngrep "bad path parameters" error.txt
+ test_i18ngrep "bad path arguments" error.txt
'
test_expect_success 'test bisection on bare repo - --no-checkout specified' '
--
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