On 2003-05-21(Wed) 22:09:38 +0200, Christian Rose wrote: > In all other cases, committing po files that were touched by make dist > is just a nuisance that most translators would want to go away as soon > as possible (see below). Not only that, sometimes translations can be ruined by committing touched po files by make dist. This doesn't happen often, but it does occur sometimes. Probably some maintainers were still using old version of gettext/intltool. I have seen jrb reverting the broken po files for several times. Abel > > On the other hand, if a translator has a modified po file on his > > computer that he hasn't committed yet, the next time he cvs updates, > > he'll get a conflict for most of the strings in this file, which makes > > resolving the conflicts next to impossible. > > This unfortunately happens quite often, and correctly resolving such > conflicts is in many cases non-trivial. And the problem is even more > worrying as most "make dist touched the po file" commits are totally > unnecessary. They also make unnecessary garbage for someone trying to > follow cvs history for a po file. > > > Christian > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n gnome org > http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n -- Abel Cheung GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF
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