Re: [gtk-osx-users] Using localization with "Application" menu with the gtk mac integration library.

[Joshua Pettus <jshpettus gmail com>]

Ok, I found a solution to my first question, but I really don’t understand the git format-patch HEAD^ 
command. running it just downloads the last comment done as a .patch file.  and what is ^s?  how is this 
suppose to effect my patch file?


> On Nov 21, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Joshua Pettus <jshpettus gmail com> wrote:
>
> I’d be happy too. Almost done and I made sure to do the commit messages as done in the source, but I have 
> some basic questions.  What constitutes as a comment? Is it each line added and taken away or is it each 
> section in the patch file? Is there a way I can get diff to recognize the GtkosxApplication.string.lang 
> files as not being a binary?  Otherwise it just says the two are different and leaves it at that.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
> > On Nov 21, 2014, at 2:00 PM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Nov 21, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Joshua Pettus <jshpettus gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I realize you are very busy, and I don’t mean to make myself more of a pest then I have,  but I fear 
> > > between the localization strings being labeled incorrectly and quit and help items needing an update to 
> > > take into account the automatically added application name, localization simply does not work as 
> > > advertised. Also word order isn’t the same in all languages anyway.  Please update this whenever you get 
> > > a free moment, as I hate having my own version of the library on my computer and is certainly not 
> > > beneficial to others.  I updated the strings to how GIMP handled them. Just to have it all in one place, 
> > > I’ll include Kevin Berningham’s suggestion into a patch file and put the updated strings folder 
> > > (including the makefile.am) in a zip.  Unfortunately diff thought the strings were all binary files so I 
> > > couldn’t just put them in the patch. :(
> >
> > Thanks for the patches, but please open a bug in BZ, project gtk-mac-integration, and attach them there. 
> > Make the patches by cloning the git repo, making a branch against master, committing your changes to that 
> > branch with good commit messages, and run `git format-patch HEAD^`, adjusting the number of ^s for the 
> > number of commits.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls