Re: git status update?

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mardi 03 mars 2009 à 13:42 -0500, Owen Taylor a écrit :
> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:08 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > > I just wonder about a pre-commit hook which I think checks the po files
> > > validity (msgfmt check). IMHO It should also be rather easy to rewrite
> > > for git. 
> > 
> > Looks easy to rewrite, yes.
> 
> Any advise and insight into the code in that hook.
> 
>         # The Persian (fa) team is using localized numeric formats
>         # in their .po files, but gettext on cvs.gnome.org isn't
>         # new enough to handle them.
> #       DASH_C=""
> #       BASENAME=`basename 
> #       if [ "$BASENAME" != "fa.po" ]; then
> #               DASH_C="-c"
> #       fi
> 
> (we used to pass in -c for everything but fa.po, and now we pass it 
> in for nothing)

Are they other check options passed (--check-format, --check-header,
--check-domain)?

> Would be appreciated.
> 
> mgfmt on git.gnome.org (RHEL 5) is version 0.14.6

Well, this is indeed an outdated version. e.g. msgctxt support has been
introduced in 0.15. Would it be possible to build a more recent version?

With a more recent version, the -c check could be reintroduced and
general po quality improved.

Claude