Re: [PATCH] gc: remove trailing dot from "gc.log" line

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 2:18 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:37 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> > <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>                 warning(_("The last gc run reported the following. "
> >>                                "Please correct the root cause\n"
> >> -                              "and remove %s.\n"
> >> +                              "and remove %s\n"
> >
> > Even more bikeshedding:
> >
> >     Please correct the root cause and remove
> >     /path/to/repo/.git/gc.log
> >     to allow automatic cleanup to resume.
> >
> > or something.
>
> I also found the line break before "and remove" strange, but I think
> that is because the "Please" is not at the beginning of the
> paragraph, but is a second sentence.  Perhaps unfolding "and remove"
> would make the first line overly long?

Yep, you're right, and perhaps my "Even more bikeshedding" didn't
clearly indicate that I was bikeshedding more about combining the
"Please correct..." and "Automatic cleanup..." sentences into a single
sentence, both as a another way to deal with the punctuation issue
(thus allowing easy double-click) and to make the whole thing read a
bit better.



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