On Mon, Oct 10 2022, Taylor Blau wrote: > The subsequent commit will add another unhandled case in > `read_from_stdin()` which will want to use the same message as with > `--group=trailer`. > > Extract the "--group=trailer" part from this message so the same > translation key can be used for both cases. > > Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > builtin/shortlog.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/shortlog.c b/builtin/shortlog.c > index 53c379a51d..051c97bd5a 100644 > --- a/builtin/shortlog.c > +++ b/builtin/shortlog.c > @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static void read_from_stdin(struct shortlog *log) > match = committer_match; > break; > case SHORTLOG_GROUP_TRAILER: > - die(_("using --group=trailer with stdin is not supported")); > + die(_("using %s with stdin is not supported"), "--group=trailer"); > default: > BUG("unhandled shortlog group"); > } Rather than add another translation that you can use in 2x places here (with 4/7) instead do: diff --git a/builtin/shortlog.c b/builtin/shortlog.c index 7a1e1fe7c0e..59aef24f637 100644 --- a/builtin/shortlog.c +++ b/builtin/shortlog.c @@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ static void read_from_stdin(struct shortlog *log) match = committer_match; break; case SHORTLOG_GROUP_TRAILER: - die(_("using --group=trailer with stdin is not supported")); + die(_("options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"), + "--group=<trailer>", "--stdin"); default: BUG("unhandled shortlog group"); } Which as you can see with "git grep 'cannot be used together'" we already use in a lot of places. We should probably extract this to a: die_opt_2_incompatible("--group=<trailer>", "--stdin"); But that can all be done in some hypothetical future, but for now the status quo is that we know of these common strings, and copy/paste them in various files.