Toni Mueller wrote: > Hi Jonathan, >> Have you read https://bugs.debian.org/613892#10? Would you be >> interested in working on a patch for upstream Git to do that? We can >> make the error message printed when manpages are missing a value set >> at compile time (see the Makefile for existing compile-time parameters >> like DEFAULT_EDITOR). I'm happy to give pointers, etc. to anyone >> wanting to work on this. > > I actually followed a different route and created a patch which is > Debian-specific. Please have a look - it is not yet polished in any way, > esp. all the translations are missing. The patch is against git in > unstable.
Thanks! This is an excellent starting point. I'll be happy to tweak this to make it configurable enough for upstream. I'll also look into getting the Debian-specific text translated, which will be a new adventure for me. May I have your sign-off? (See Documentation/SubmittingPatches section 5 "Certify your work" for what this means.) Thanks, Jonathan
