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Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:15:16 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: Jiang Xin , Git List , Jiang Xin Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: report on whether or not gettext is enabled In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:03:47 +0100") References: Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:15:14 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: >> Combined with the vintage of Git binary that had these help text, >> the fact that an "enabled" line is missing is enough clue to >> diagnose. >> ... > > One reason why I personally prefer to have enabled/disabled is that it > allows you to discern the following two cases: > > - You have a modern version of Git that doesn't have gettext. > > - You have an old version of Git that doesn't know to print > information about whether or not gettext is enabled. When you see no "gettext:" line in the report, you can tell between the above two cases by looking at what the first entry in the same report "git version --build-options" produced, which is the Git version, can't you?