Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Junio,
>
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >
>> >> Jean-Noël Avila <jn.av...@free.fr> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > Le 20/07/2017 à 20:57, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
>> >> >>
>> >> >> +      git diff --quiet HEAD && git diff --quiet --cached
>> >> >> +
>> >> >> +      @for s in $(LOCALIZED_C) $(LOCALIZED_SH) $(LOCALIZED_PERL); \
>> >> >
>> >> > Does PRIuMAX make sense for perl and sh files?
>> >> 
>> >> Not really; I did this primarily because I would prefer to keep
>> >> things consistent, anticipating there may be some other things we
>> >> need to replace before running gettext(1) for other reasons later.
>> >
>> > It would add unnecessary churn, too, to add those specific exclusions and
>> > make things inconsistent: the use of PRItime in Perl or shell scripts
>> > would already make those scripts barf. And if it is unnecessary churn...
>> > let's not do it?
>> 
>> Sorry, but I cannot quite tell if you are in favor of limiting the
>> set of source files that go through the sed substitution (because we
>> know PRIuMAX is just as nonsensical as PRItime in perl and shell
>> source), or if you are in favor of keeping the patch as-is (because
>> changing the set of source files is a churn and substitutions would
>> not hurt)?
>
> I was in favor of keeping the simplest strategy: simply cover all files,
> including Perl and Unix shell scripts. It would not bring any benefit to
> exclude them.

OK.  I actually was OK to limit the potential damage to C sources,
but it does not matter that much in the bigger picture.

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