Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes:

> As the place holder in the error message is for multiple submodules,
> we don't want to encapsulate the string place holder in single quotes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
> ---
>
>> Nitpicking about wording: unless the user has adopted a strongly
>> object-oriented point of view, it is Git that cannot checkout a new
>> HEAD, not the submodule.
>> 
>> How about:
>> 
>>                 _("Cannot update submodule:\n%s")
>
>> That's vague, but if I understand correctly the way this error gets
>> used is equally vague --- i.e., a clearer message would involve
>> finer-grained error codes.
>
> Makes sense. Here is the patch.
> Let's roll this as its own instead of waiting for the discussion on the other
> patch to settle.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
>  unpack-trees.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c
> index 8333da2cc9..0d82452f7f 100644
> --- a/unpack-trees.c
> +++ b/unpack-trees.c
> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ void setup_unpack_trees_porcelain(struct 
> unpack_trees_options *opts,
>       msgs[ERROR_WOULD_LOSE_ORPHANED_REMOVED] =
>               _("The following working tree files would be removed by sparse 
> checkout update:\n%s");
>       msgs[ERROR_WOULD_LOSE_SUBMODULE] =
> -             _("Submodule '%s' cannot checkout new HEAD");
> +             _("Cannot update submodule:\n%s")

Missing ';'.  I'll fix locally, but the final integration result
won't be pushed out until later tonight, as I need to redo jch and
pu branches with a fixed version.


>  
>       opts->show_all_errors = 1;
>       /* rejected paths may not have a static buffer */

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