Re: Why do maintainers "sync" po files in cvs?
- From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>
- To: Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>
- Cc: Tommi Vainikainen <tvainika twilight cs hut fi>, GNOME I18N List <gnome-i18n gnome org>, GNOME Desktop Development List <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Why do maintainers "sync" po files in cvs?
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:28:58 +0100
Hi Christian,
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 20:40, Christian Rose wrote:
> fre 2004-08-13 klockan 10.44 skrev Tommi Vainikainen:
> > 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?
>
> It has been brought up before (see
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-May/msg00896.html), but possibly it's worth reminding developers again to avoid committing po files touched by make dist to CVS.
You'll note that although we all agreed "that sucks" I don't think we
ever agreed that not committing the .po file changes was better overall.
Cheers,
Mark.
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