Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] i18n: add--interactive: mark strings with interpolation for translation

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:57:54 -0700

Vasco Almeida <[email-masked]> writes:

> @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ sub edit_hunk_manually {
>  	my $hunkfile = $repo->repo_path . "/addp-hunk-edit.diff";
>  	my $fh;
>  	open $fh, '>', $hunkfile
> -		or die "failed to open hunk edit file for writing: " . $!;
> +		or die sprintf(__("failed to open hunk edit file for writing: %s"), $!);

OK, $! presumably is given in the user's language, so we let
translators prepare the error-specific text and interpolate $! into
it.

Makes sense.