Hi,

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
>
> >> The other warnings in that function are issued using
> >> warning_errno() (shorter code, consistency is enforced) and
> >> messages are marked for translation.  That would be nice to have
> >> here as well, no?
> >
> > Absolutely.  Also, downcase "Could" and perhaps use _() around.
>
>
> This one is easy enough (not just in the technical sense, but in the
> sense that it has little room wasting our time bikeshedding), so let's
> tie the loose ends and move on.
>
> I was tempted to fix the proposed log message to excise exaggeration
> (I prefer not to see "very", "important", etc.---other things that is
> said in the message should be enough to convince readers about the
> importance), but didn't.
>
> What I did do was to not just rephrasing the warning message, but to
> give it its own constant and to feed it to warning_errno(), to match
> the other warning message.
>
> I also saved one (or perhaps two) fork(s) from the test script ;-) and
> added a portability note there.

Thanks!

On top, I integrated Gabór's suggestion to use `test_config` and threw
in a paragraph in the commit message to explain why the `core.longpaths`
variable is touched at all.

v2 incoming,
Dscho

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