Re: [PATCH 01/10] i18n: refactor "foo and bar are mutually exclusive"

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On Tuesday, 7 December 2021 19:07:41 CET Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 03 2021, Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget wrote:
> 
> > From: =?UTF-8?q?Jean-No=C3=ABl=20Avila?= <jn.avila@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Use static strings for constant parts of the sentences.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  builtin/checkout.c          | 2 +-
> >  builtin/diff-tree.c         | 2 +-
> >  builtin/fetch.c             | 2 +-
> >  builtin/init-db.c           | 2 +-
> >  builtin/log.c               | 4 ++--
> >  builtin/submodule--helper.c | 4 ++--
> >  builtin/worktree.c          | 2 +-
> >  range-diff.c                | 2 +-
> >  8 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
> > index cbf73b8c9f6..4bd8a57f190 100644
> > --- a/builtin/checkout.c
> > +++ b/builtin/checkout.c
> > @@ -1621,7 +1621,7 @@ static int checkout_main(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
> >  				cb_option, toupper(cb_option));
> >  
> >  	if (opts->overlay_mode == 1 && opts->patch_mode)
> > -		die(_("-p and --overlay are mutually exclusive"));
> > +		die(_("%s and %s are mutually exclusive"), "-p", "--overlay");
> 
> It's good to do all of these, but I think we should really quote the
> '%s' while at it. It also helps translators, who without that won't know
> (without jumping to the source) if %s and %s are "walking" and "chewing
> gum" or something like a CLI option that's quoted :)
> 

With other comments included,  the proposition for this factorization would be:

"the options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"







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