[PATCH 0/2] Silence po catalog output under "make -s"

[PATCH 0/2] Silence po catalog output under "make -s"

[Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget]

The gitk and git-gui catalog rules sent msgfmt --statistics output (and a
"Generating catalog" line) to stderr, so it survived "make -s". Emit it only
when "-s" is absent, keeping a quiet build silent and a verbose build
unchanged.

Harald Nordgren (2):
  gitk: silence catalog output under "make -s"
  git-gui: silence statistics under "make -s"

 git-gui/Makefile  |  3 ++-
 gitk-git/Makefile | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


base-commit: ea97ad8d017de0c9037451a78008a0fd60abea0c
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2339%2FHaraldNordgren%2Fsilence-catalog-output-under-make-s-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2339/HaraldNordgren/silence-catalog-output-under-make-s-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2339
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[PATCH 1/2] gitk: silence catalog output under "make -s"

[Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget]

From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>

The catalog rule unconditionally echoed "Generating catalog" and ran
msgfmt with --statistics, whose output went to stderr and so survived
"make -s".

Emit the "Generating catalog" line and the msgfmt statistics only when
"-s" is absent, leaving a quiet build silent while default and V=1
builds are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
---
 gitk-git/Makefile | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitk-git/Makefile b/gitk-git/Makefile
index 41116d8a14..10078c54d4 100644
--- a/gitk-git/Makefile
+++ b/gitk-git/Makefile
@@ -43,10 +43,16 @@ PO_TEMPLATE = po/gitk.pot
 ALL_POFILES = $(wildcard po/*.po)
 ALL_MSGFILES = $(subst .po,.msg,$(ALL_POFILES))
 
+MSGFMT_GEN = @:
+
+ifneq ($(findstring s,$(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS))),s)
 ifndef V
 	QUIET          = @
 	QUIET_GEN      = $(QUIET)echo '   ' GEN $@ &&
 endif
+	MSGFMT_GEN   = @echo Generating catalog $@
+	MSGFMT_STATS = --statistics
+endif
 
 all:: gitk-wish $(ALL_MSGFILES)
 
@@ -75,8 +81,8 @@ update-po:: $(PO_TEMPLATE)
 	echo; \
 	echo "	git config filter.gettext-no-location.clean \"msgcat --no-location -\""
 $(ALL_MSGFILES): %.msg : %.po
-	@echo Generating catalog $@
-	$(MSGFMT) --statistics --tcl -l $(basename $(notdir $<)) -d $(dir $@) $<
+	$(MSGFMT_GEN)
+	$(MSGFMT) $(MSGFMT_STATS) --tcl -l $(basename $(notdir $<)) -d $(dir $@) $<
 
 .PHONY: all install uninstall clean update-po
 .PHONY: FORCE
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[PATCH 2/2] git-gui: silence statistics under "make -s"

[Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget]

From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>

The catalog rule passed --statistics to msgfmt unconditionally, and its
output went to stderr, so it survived "make -s".

Pass --statistics only when "-s" is absent, leaving a quiet build silent
while default and V=1 builds are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
---
 git-gui/Makefile | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-gui/Makefile b/git-gui/Makefile
index d33204e875..76245fa84b 100644
--- a/git-gui/Makefile
+++ b/git-gui/Makefile
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ ifndef V
 	REMOVE_F0 = dst=
 	REMOVE_F1 = && echo '   ' REMOVE `basename "$$dst"` && $(RM_RF) "$$dst"
 endif
+	MSGFMT_STATS = --statistics
 endif
 
 TCLTK_PATH ?= wish
@@ -155,7 +156,7 @@ $(PO_TEMPLATE): $(SCRIPT_SH) $(ALL_LIBFILES)
 update-po:: $(PO_TEMPLATE)
 	$(foreach p, $(ALL_POFILES), echo Updating $p ; msgmerge -U $p $(PO_TEMPLATE) ; )
 $(ALL_MSGFILES): %.msg : %.po
-	$(QUIET_MSGFMT0)$(MSGFMT) --statistics --tcl -l $(basename $(notdir $<)) -d $(dir $@) $< $(QUIET_MSGFMT1)
+	$(QUIET_MSGFMT0)$(MSGFMT) $(MSGFMT_STATS) --tcl -l $(basename $(notdir $<)) -d $(dir $@) $< $(QUIET_MSGFMT1)
 
 lib/tclIndex: $(ALL_LIBFILES) generate-tclindex.sh GIT-GUI-BUILD-OPTIONS
 	$(QUIET_INDEX)$(SHELL_PATH) generate-tclindex.sh . ./GIT-GUI-BUILD-OPTIONS $(ALL_LIBFILES)
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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Silence po catalog output under "make -s"

[Harald Nordgren]

It's this output that currently is not silent:

$ make -s
...
579 translated messages.
558 translated messages.
514 translated messages.
381 translated messages, 4 fuzzy translations, 6 untranslated messages.
520 translated messages.
519 translated messages, 1 untranslated message.
546 translated messages, 1 untranslated message.
474 translated messages, 39 untranslated messages.
520 translated messages.
550 translated messages.
579 translated messages.
576 translated messages.
366 translated messages, 7 fuzzy translations, 17 untranslated messages.
543 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/bg.msg
322 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/ca.msg
307 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/de.msg
307 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/es.msg
184 translated messages, 46 fuzzy translations, 77 untranslated messages.
Generating catalog po/fr.msg
311 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/hu.msg
277 translated messages, 18 fuzzy translations, 12 untranslated messages.
Generating catalog po/it.msg
274 translated messages, 17 fuzzy translations, 16 untranslated messages.
Generating catalog po/ja.msg
311 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/pt_br.msg
279 translated messages, 16 fuzzy translations, 12 untranslated messages.
Generating catalog po/pt_pt.msg
311 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/ru.msg
317 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/sv.msg
323 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/ta.msg
Generating catalog po/vi.msg
327 translated messages.
Generating catalog po/zh_cn.msg
307 translated messages.
    GEN gitk-wish
317 translated messages.




On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 7:52 PM Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The gitk and git-gui catalog rules sent msgfmt --statistics output (and a
> "Generating catalog" line) to stderr, so it survived "make -s". Emit it only
> when "-s" is absent, keeping a quiet build silent and a verbose build
> unchanged.
>
> Harald Nordgren (2):
>   gitk: silence catalog output under "make -s"
>   git-gui: silence statistics under "make -s"
>
>  git-gui/Makefile  |  3 ++-
>  gitk-git/Makefile | 10 ++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: ea97ad8d017de0c9037451a78008a0fd60abea0c
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2339%2FHaraldNordgren%2Fsilence-catalog-output-under-make-s-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2339/HaraldNordgren/silence-catalog-output-under-make-s-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2339
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