Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] config --global --edit: create a template file if needed

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
>
>>> +static char *default_user_config()
>>> +{
>>> +       struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
>>> +       strbuf_addf(&buf,
>>> +                   _("# This is Git's user-wide configuration file.\n"
>>> +                     "[core]\n"
>>> +                     "# Please, adapt and uncomment the following lines:\n"
>>> +                     "#        user = %s\n"
>>> +                     "#        email = %s\n"),
>>
>> "[core]", "user =", "email =" should not be translated. Would it make
>> sense to keep these outside of _()?
>
> I would say no, as the code and the string to translate would be much
> less readable without core, user and email inline.
>
> Were you suggesting stg like
>
> _("# This is Git's user-wide configuration file.\n"
>   "[%s]\n"
>   "# Please, adapt and uncomment the following lines:\n"
>   "#        %s = %s\n"
>   "#        %s = %s\n"),
>   "core", "name", ..., "email", ...
>
> ?

That or some equivalent variation. I'm not a translator, but the above
seems to convey sufficient context for a translator to understand what
needs to be said, while preventing accidental translations of those
strings which should not be translated.

>>> +                       if (fd) {
>>> +                               char *content = default_user_config();
>>> +                               write_str_in_full(fd, content);
>>
>> close(fd);
>
> Indeed.
>
>>> +                               free(content);
>>> +                       }
>>> +                       else if (errno != EEXIST)
>>> +                               die_errno(_("Cannot create configuration file %s"), config_file);
>>
>> Other error messages in this file (including those just above this
>> block) begin with a lowercase letter.
>
> Applied.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Matthieu Moy
> http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/