Am 06.12.23 um 14:08 schrieb Patrick Steinhardt: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 12:51:58PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote: >> Use the standard parameterized message for reporting incompatible >> options to report options that are not accepted in combination with >> --exclude-hidden. This reduces the number of strings to translate and >> makes the UI a bit more consistent. >> >> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> >> --- >> builtin/rev-parse.c | 9 ++++++--- >> revision.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ >> t/t6018-rev-list-glob.sh | 6 ++---- >> t/t6021-rev-list-exclude-hidden.sh | 4 ++-- >> 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/builtin/rev-parse.c b/builtin/rev-parse.c >> index fde8861ca4..917f122440 100644 >> --- a/builtin/rev-parse.c >> +++ b/builtin/rev-parse.c >> @@ -893,13 +893,15 @@ int cmd_rev_parse(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) >> } >> if (opt_with_value(arg, "--branches", &arg)) { >> if (ref_excludes.hidden_refs_configured) >> - return error(_("--exclude-hidden cannot be used together with --branches")); >> + return error(_("options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"), >> + "--exclude-hidden", "--branches"); > > The repetitive nature of this patch and subsequent ones made me wonder > whether it would be useful to have a function similar to the > `die_for_incompatible_*()` helper that knows to format this error > correctly. I wondered the same and experimented with a die_for_incompatible_opt2(). It would allow the compiler to detect typos. Passing in the conditions as parameters is a bit tedious and unlike its for its higher-numbered siblings there is not much to win by doing that instead of using an if statement or two nested ones. We could pass in 1 if we want to integrate that function into an if cascade like above, but it would look a bit silly. And here we'd need a non-fatal version anyway. Perhaps a build step that lists all new translatable strings would help? Nah, that would require building each commit. A LLM-based tool to find translatable strings with the same meaning? Don't know how difficult that would be. So I feel the same, but don't have a solution that would justify the churn of replacing the duplicate strings with function calls. :-/ René