[RFC PATCH 0/3] usage: prefix all lines in `vreportf()`, not just the first

["Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>]

On 25 May 2018 at 11:14, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>>> +                    warning("the '-l' option is an alias for '--create-reflog' and");
>>> +                    warning("has no effect in list mode. This option will soon be");
>>> +                    warning("removed and you should omit it (or use '--list' instead).");
>
> By the way, this is one of these times when I feel that we should
> have a better multi-line message support in die/error/warning/info
> functions.  Ideally, I should be able to write
[...]
>         warning(_("the '-l' option is an alias for '--create-reflog' and\n"
>                   "has no effect in list mode, This option will soon be\n"
>                   "removed and you should omit it (or use '--list' instead)."));
[...]
> and warning() would:
>
>  - do the sprintf formatting thing as necessary to prepare a long multi-line
>    message;
>
>  - chomp that into lines at '\n' boundary; and
>
>  - give each of these lines with _("warning: ") prefixed.
>
> That way, translators can choose to make the resulting message to
> different number of lines from the original easily.

How about something like this? The first two patches implement the
above three points, except for the translation of "warning: ".

The third patch is the main reason this is marked RFC. It translates
"warning: " and similar, and breaks quite a few tests under
GETTEXT_POISON since we grep for, e.g., "warning" on stderr. I could
annotate those tests, but since I'm running out of time anyway, I
thought I'd post this as a heads-up of "I'm looking into this".

I do wonder: If our tests rely on grepping for "warning" (for pretty
good reasons), how many scripts out there do something similar (for
maybe-not-so-good reasons, but still)? Do we want to avoid breaking
them?

Also left to do is to convert any existing lego-ing users to the
single-string form that Junio wished for above.

Martin

Martin Ågren (3):
  usage: extract `prefix_suffix_lines()` from `advise()`
  usage: prefix all lines in `vreportf()`, not just the first
  usage: translate the "error: "-prefix and others

 t/t1011-read-tree-sparse-checkout.sh |  6 ++---
 t/t1506-rev-parse-diagnosis.sh       |  2 +-
 t/t1600-index.sh                     |  6 ++---
 t/t3600-rm.sh                        | 36 ++++++++++++-------------
 t/t5512-ls-remote.sh                 |  6 ++---
 t/t7607-merge-overwrite.sh           |  6 ++---
 t/t7609-merge-co-error-msgs.sh       | 39 ++++++++++++++--------------
 git-compat-util.h                    |  8 ++++++
 advice.c                             | 18 ++++++-------
 usage.c                              | 28 ++++++++++++++++----
 10 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

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