On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:17 PM Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> Hmm, do we actually say things like "Error: blah"? I am not sure if > >> I like this strncasecmp all that much. > > > > this is for the remote end, so what we (git-core) says isn't all that > > relevant. > > It is very relevant, I would think. Because the coloring is > controlled at the client end with this implementation, third-party > remote implementations have strong incentive to follow what our > remote end says and not to deviate. Preventing them from being > different just to be different does help the users, no?
But the ship has already sailed: Gerrit has been saying "ERROR" instead of "error" for many years. In the case of Gerrit, the upper case message is a (poor) way to make the error message stand out from the sea of progress messages that "git push" prints on the terminal, without requiring a newer version of git-core. -- Google Germany GmbH, Erika-Mann-Strasse 33, 80636 Munich Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado
