Re: Guidlines for error messages

2017-07-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Kaartic Sivaraam writes: > On reading the CodingGuidelines, I saw a section that specifies rules > about the structure ... > ... > That makes me wonder, has the guideline changed ? > Is this something that must be fixed ? > Am I missing something ? This applies not just to the messag

Guidlines for error messages

2017-07-28 Thread Kaartic Sivaraam
Hello all, On reading the CodingGuidelines, I saw a section that specifies rules about the structure and formatting of error messages. I have reproduced it below, Error Messages  - Do not end error messages with a full stop.  - Do not capitalize ("unable to open %s", not "Unable to