Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] bisect: replace hardcoded "bad|good" by variables

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 08:45:03 +0200

Antoine Delaite <[email-masked]> writes:

> --- a/git-bisect.sh
> +++ b/git-bisect.sh
> @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ OPTIONS_SPEC=
>  
>  _x40='[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]'
>  _x40="$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40"
> +NAME_BAD="bad"
> +NAME_GOOD="good"

I would have written

NAME_NEW=bad
NAME_OLD=good

"old/new" are the generic wording, so I think it would make more sense
for the codebase to use it when we don't hardcode old/new.

(and the double-quotes are not needed)

> @@ -249,8 +254,8 @@ bisect_state() {
>  			bisect_write "$state" "$rev"
>  		done
>  		check_expected_revs $hash_list ;;
> -	*,bad)
> -		die "$(gettext "'git bisect bad' can take only one argument.")" ;;
> +	*,"$NAME_BAD")
> +		die "$(gettext "'git bisect $NAME_BAD' can take only one argument.")" ;;

As Junio mentionned, you'll need an eval_gettext here.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/