As described in the CodingGuidelines document, a single line message given to die() and its friends should not capitalize its first word, and should not add full-stop at the end. Signed-off-by: Naomi Ibe <naomi.ibeh69@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/add.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c index c27254a5cd..5126d2ede3 100644 --- a/builtin/add.c +++ b/builtin/add.c @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static int edit_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) git_config(git_diff_basic_config, NULL); /* no "diff" UI options */ if (repo_read_index(the_repository) < 0) - die(_("Could not read the index")); + die(_("could not read the index")); repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &rev, prefix); rev.diffopt.context = 7; @@ -200,15 +200,15 @@ static int edit_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) die(_("editing patch failed")); if (stat(file, &st)) - die_errno(_("Could not stat '%s'"), file); + die_errno(_("could not stat '%s'"), file); if (!st.st_size) - die(_("Empty patch. Aborted.")); + die(_("empty patch. aborted")); child.git_cmd = 1; strvec_pushl(&child.args, "apply", "--recount", "--cached", file, NULL); if (run_command(&child)) - die(_("Could not apply '%s'"), file); + die(_("could not apply '%s'"), file); unlink(file); free(file); @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) finish: if (write_locked_index(&the_index, &lock_file, COMMIT_LOCK | SKIP_IF_UNCHANGED)) - die(_("Unable to write new index file")); + die(_("unable to write new index file")); dir_clear(&dir); clear_pathspec(&pathspec); -- 2.36.1.windows.1