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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Aniket Gupta <aniketgupta3001@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GSoC PATCH] object-name: use Q_() for the reflog entry count
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:36:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4ieb3mnu.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261023133118.456-1-aniketgupta3001@gmail.com> (Aniket Gupta's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:31:18 +0000")

Aniket Gupta <aniketgupta3001@gmail.com> writes:

> When reflog is asked for an entry that it doesnt have, for eg with
> "HEAD@{5}" get_oid_basic() reports how many entries the log has. The
> message is not marked for plural forms and a log with one entry says
> that "only has 1 entries"
>
> Use Q_() so that the singular is used for one entry so that
> translations for languages with other plural forms also can have the
> right form for each count.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aniket Gupta <aniketgupta3001@gmail.com>
> ---
>  object-name.c         |  4 +++-
>  t/t1400-update-ref.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/object-name.c b/object-name.c
> index 654668576..eeaac2ddc 100644
> --- a/object-name.c
> +++ b/object-name.c
> @@ -810,7 +810,9 @@ static int get_oid_basic(struct repository *r, const char *str, int len,
>  				if (flags & GET_OID_QUIETLY) {
>  					exit(128);
>  				}
> -				die(_("log for '%.*s' only has %d entries"),
> +				die(Q_("log for '%.*s' only has %d entry",
> +				       "log for '%.*s' only has %d entries",
> +				       co_cnt),
>  				    len, str, co_cnt);
>  			}
>  			if (flags & GET_OID_GENTLY) {
> diff --git a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh
> index 1a164c96f..1d1b46379 100755
> --- a/t/t1400-update-ref.sh
> +++ b/t/t1400-update-ref.sh
> @@ -458,6 +458,20 @@ test_expect_success 'query reflog with gap' '
>  	test_grep -F "warning: log for ref $m has gap after $gd" stderr
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success 'reflog entry out of range reports how many there are' '
> +	test_when_finished "git update-ref -d $m" &&
> +
> +	GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="1117150320 -0500" git update-ref $m $A &&
> +	test_must_fail git rev-parse --verify "main@{5}" 2>actual &&
> +	echo "fatal: log for ${SQ}main${SQ} only has 1 entry" >expect &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> +
> +	GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="1117150380 -0500" git update-ref $m $B &&
> +	test_must_fail git rev-parse --verify "main@{5}" 2>actual &&
> +	echo "fatal: log for ${SQ}main${SQ} only has 2 entries" >expect &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'
> +
>  test_expect_success 'creating initial files' '
>  	test_when_finished rm -f M &&
>  	echo TEST >F &&

Obviously there are existing tests that cover this message already,
and without adjusting them, the test suite would not pass with this
patch applied.

$ make >/dev/null 2>&1 && cd t && sh ./t1506-rev*.sh -i -v
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
expecting success of 1506.1 'set up basic repo': 
	echo one > file.txt &&
	mkdir subdir &&
	echo two > subdir/file.txt &&
	echo three > subdir/file2.txt &&
	git add . &&
	git commit -m init &&
	echo four > index-only.txt &&
	git add index-only.txt &&
	echo five > disk-only.txt
...
ok 12 - incorrect file in :path and :N:path

expecting success of 1506.13 'invalid @{n} reference': 
	test_must_fail git rev-parse main@{99999} >output 2>error &&
	test_must_be_empty output &&
	test_grep "log for [^ ]* only has [0-9][0-9]* entries" error  &&
	test_must_fail git rev-parse --verify main@{99999} >output 2>error &&
	test_must_be_empty output &&
	test_grep "log for [^ ]* only has [0-9][0-9]* entries" error

error: 'grep log for [^ ]* only has [0-9][0-9]* entries error' didn't find a match in:
fatal: log for 'main' only has 1 entry
not ok 13 - invalid @{n} reference
#	
#		test_must_fail git rev-parse main@{99999} >output 2>error &&
#		test_must_be_empty output &&
#		test_grep "log for [^ ]* only has [0-9][0-9]* entries" error  &&
#		test_must_fail git rev-parse --verify main@{99999} >output 2>error &&
#		test_must_be_empty output &&
#		test_grep "log for [^ ]* only has [0-9][0-9]* entries" error
#	
1..13

It could be that t1506 is the only one that needs adjusting.

$ git grep -n -e 'only has.*entries' -- :/t
t/t1400-update-ref.sh:471:	echo "fatal: log for ${SQ}main${SQ} only has 2 entries" >expect &&
t/t1506-rev-parse-diagnosis.sh:145:	test_grep "log for [^ ]* only has [0-9][0-9]* entries" error  &&
t/t1506-rev-parse-diagnosis.sh:148:	test_grep "log for [^ ]* only has [0-9][0-9]* entries" error


  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-24  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-23 13:31 [GSoC PATCH] object-name: use Q_() for the reflog entry count Aniket Gupta
2026-10-24  1:36 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-10-24  2:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-25  6:12 ` [GSoC PATCH v2] " Aniket Gupta

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