Re: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages.

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
. Please use VC_LIST_EXCEPT, so that the checks look only at version-controlled files. That also provides a method for exceptions: see the existing .x-sc_* files. Subject: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages. Insert * on each of these ChangeLog-style lines in the commit log. This matters because

Re: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages.

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
/ ;-) Yikes. :) Bo From fda400023db314046b6792b1b51c242b2bb62996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:13:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages. * maint.mk: (sc_error_message_warn_fatal, sc_error_message_uppercase

Re: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages.

2008-04-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be too small to bother with (if so I'll know next time), but I was reading standards.txt, and noticed the following in section 4.4 on formatting error messages: The string MESSAGE should not begin with a capital letter when it follows a

Re: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages.

2008-04-04 Thread Bo Borgerson
*** rule rather than to the code it complained about. Bo From 41f5f14c10a47335fd1b19130201a3a57202e8c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:13:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages. maint.mk: Add automatic checks for non-standard error

Re: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages.

2008-04-04 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please remove the #FIXME comment, now that you've fixed it ;-) Ha, tunnel vision :) Thanks, Bo ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org