Why do maintainers "sync" po files in cvs?

[Tommi Vainikainen <tvainika twilight cs hut fi>]

Hi,

I've noticed that some maintainers (not speaking about translators
now) run intltool-update for every po file and then commit those files
with only those autogenerated changes. I think this is bad behaviour
with version control.

Sometimes I do partially update translation, but because only
partially, I don't instantly commit those changes. If someone
"updates" po file during that, I get very annoying CVS conflicts.

So how to get this message (ie. not to do such things) to all those
maintainers and is there somewhere documented procedures for
maintainers regarding this issue?

-- 
Tommi Vainikainen