Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
>> By the way, this is one of these times when I feel that we should
>> have a better multi-line message support in die/error/warning/info
>> functions. Ideally, I should be able to write
>>
>> warning(_("the '-l' option is an alias for '--create-reflog' and\n"
>> "has no effect in list mode, This option will soon be\n"
>> "removed and you should omit it (or use '--list' instead)."));
>>
>> and warning() would:
>>
>> - do the sprintf formatting thing as necessary to prepare a long multi-line
>> message;
>>
>> - chomp that into lines at '\n' boundary; and
>>
>> - give each of these lines with _("warning: ") prefixed.
>>
>> That way, translators can choose to make the resulting message to
>> different number of lines from the original easily.
>
> Yep, I totally agree. In past discussions I was thinking mostly of
> the pain of writing these multi-line messages. But I imagine it is
> absolute hell for translators, and we should fix it for that reason.
>
> (Also, I guess this message probably ought to be marked for
> translation).
Needless to tell you, I worked backwards when noticing that these
three warning() lines are not marked for translation ;-).
But of course, fixing this in a naïve way will involve memory
allocation during execution of die(), which may well be due to OOM,
which is why we knew the need but haven't found a good solution to
it.
