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

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mercredi 08 avril 2009 à 11:33 +0100, Simos a écrit :
> 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.

FYI, a ticket asking for a VCS account for damned-lies has been sent to
accounts gnome org (#8372), end of February. We're now waiting for an
answer.

Claude

> 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