On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 17:47:50 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> currently digging through the git source code, and i'm seeing some
> function calls of the form:
>
> if (size < len)
> die(_("too-short tree file"));
>
> i'm ashamed to admit, i'm not sure what the above represents -- the
> underscore embedded in that function call? what does it mean?
>
> rday
>
IIRC, it has something to done with gettext, a way of extracting text
from the source for translation. It puts the text in a separate file
which can be translated. Then the program can automatically load the
correct translation file for the user's locale.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
--
Don't stop where the ink does.
Shawn H Corey
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