Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.8.0-rc2

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Duy Nguyen venit, vidit, dixit 16.03.2016 14:40:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> In hindsight, what happened must have been like this:
>>
>> "ahead " was marked properly for l10n and translated in the past.
>>
>> 7a76c28 (status: disable translation when --porcelain is used,
>> 2014-03-20) introduced those extra parentheses. Matthieu probably didn't
>> rerun "make pot" and "msgmerge" so that he didn't notice the consequences.
> 
> .po(t) files are _very_ noisy because they record line numbers and
> that pretty much guarantees huge diffs. Even I as a former translator
> do not want to "make pot" and see the differences. If only msgmerge
> supports an output without line numbers...
> 

echo '*.po diff=po' >>.gitattributes
echo '*.pot diff=po' >>.gitattributes
git config diff.po.textconv "msgcat --indent --no-location"

With or without the indent, that gives a pretty clean diff. [It's
unfortunate that one half of that config is in-tree, one-half is not.]

The way it currently is, "non-l10n" coders don't even notice when their
changes affect the set of marked strings. But I guess ususally that's
not a problem.

For our l10n coordinator it is impossible to decide whether a "git.pot"
diff between two runs looks the way it is supposed to look - he would
have to be aware of all code changes that intentionally change the
marked strings. (Likewise, for the translators.)

So, really, the "actual coders" know best whether their changes should
affect l10n or not, so they should be made more aware of it. Forcing
"make pot" (and maybe more) on everyone sounds a bit harsh, but what
else can we do?

Michael