Re: Using Git and separating translations into their own l10n-LL repository

[Simos <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Milo Casagrande <milo casagrande name> wrote:
> Matej Urban ha scritto:
>>
>> Thanks ~-clone worked!
>> But, how do I only clone the po dir. Whan I enter:
>> clone ssh://username git gnome org/git/system-tools-backends-clone/po
>> it returnes error, that dir can not be found!
>
> If I'm not totally wrong... you can't, you have to clone at least the
> 'master' branch.

Indeed. You need to clone the (whole) repository
and you cannot cherry-pick a subdirectory only, as it was possible
with Subversion.

There are a few ways around it, and I expect to see them working soon.
With damned-lies/vertimus, there is working going on to be able to
submit translations
through the web interface.
In addition, with http://github.com/simos/intltool-manage-vcs/ there
is work to automate
the retrieving of repositories and committing changes so that the
translator is focusing on
the actually translation only.

Simos