Jiang Xin <[email protected]> writes:
> Commit cb71f8bdb5 ("PRItime: introduce a new "printf format" for
> timestamps", 2017-04-21) does not play well with i18n framework. The
> static string concatenation cannot be correctly interpreted by
> gettext utilities, such as xgettext.
>
> Wrap PRItime in format_raw_time() function, so that we can extract
> correct l10n messages into "po/git.pot".
>
> Reported-by: Jean-Noël Avila <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <[email protected]>
> ...
> @@ -191,6 +200,15 @@ struct date_mode *date_mode_from_type(enum
> date_mode_type type)
> return &mode;
> }
>
> +const char *format_raw_time(timestamp_t time)
> +{
> + static struct strbuf time_buf = STRBUF_INIT;
> +
> + strbuf_reset(&time_buf);
> + strbuf_addf(&time_buf, "%"PRItime, time);
> + return time_buf.buf;
> +}
Hmm.
Two potential issues are:
- After this patch, there still are quite a many
printf("time is %"PRItime" ...\n", timestamp)
so the burden on the programmers having to remember when it is
required to use format_raw_time() becomes unclear, and makes the
change/churn larger when an existing message needs to be marked
for translation.
- The static struct strbuf here is a cheap way to avoid leaks, but
at the same time it is unfriendly to threaded code. We could
instead do:
void append_PRItime(struct strbuf *buf, timestamp_t time);
to fix that trivially, but the damage to the caller obviously is
much larger going this way.
