Re: rebased patches?

[Jim Meyering]

Bo Borgerson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here are my outstanding patches.  These are also available for fetch at:
>
> git://repo.or.cz/coreutils/bo.git
>
> They are in the following branches:
...
> error-msgs (and syntax checks)

Thanks, Bo,

I've just pushed that one, slightly adjusted:
One of the new checks caught a capitalization nit
in truncate.c, too ;-)

commit 6eec737ade63bd48e0cccd66c021dd5523100f06
Author: Bo Borgerson <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Apr 4 11:13:13 2008 -0400

    standardize some error messages

    * maint.mk: (sc_error_message_warn_fatal, sc_error_message_uppercase):
    (sc_error_message_period): Add automatic checks for non-standard error
    messages.
    * .x-sc_error_message_uppercase: explicit exclusion for this check
    * src/cp.c: Standardize some error messages.
    * src/date.c: Likewise.
    * src/dircolors.c: Likewise.
    * src/du.c: Likewise.
    * src/expr.c: Likewise.
    * src/install.c: Likewise.
    * src/join.c: Likewise.
    * src/ln.c: Likewise.
    * src/mv.c: Likewise.
    * src/od.c: Likewise.
    * src/pr.c: Likewise.
    * src/split.c: Likewise.
    * src/truncate.c: Likewise.
    * src/wc.c: Likewise.
    * tests/du/files0-from: Expect new error message.
    * tests/misc/join: Likewise.
    * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise.
    * tests/misc/wc-files0-from: Likewise.
    * tests/misc/xstrtol: Likewise.
    * lib/xmemxfrm.c: Likewise.

diff --git a/src/truncate.c b/src/truncate.c
index f353067..f26fd45 100644
--- a/src/truncate.c
+++ b/src/truncate.c
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   /* must specify either size or reference file */
   if ((ref_file && got_size) || (!ref_file && !got_size))
     {
-      error (0, 0, _("You must specify one of %s or %s"),
+      error (0, 0, _("you must specify one of %s or %s"),
              quote_n (0, "--size"), quote_n (1, "--reference"));
       usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
     }