From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:38:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add Swedish translation.
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 13:35, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       -#: wt-status.c:56
>>
>> These context lines are invaluable when figuring out how to translate stuff,
>> and to track back strings after the fact. I do not like the idea of removing
>> them.
>
> Yes they're useful while translating. But as documented in po/README's
> "Updating a .po file" you can use them while doing that without
> submitting them to git.git.
>
> If they're included the majority of any po/*.po update will be updates
> to auto-generated line number comments.

After doing some msgmerge on is.po I think omitting these line numbers
might be the wrong move.

msgmerge can get very confused, and mark translations fuzzy across
unrelated files, presumably that wouldn't happen if they were there. I
haven't tested it though.

CC-ing the gettext maintainer, maybe he has some insights. The gettext
manual doesn't discuss this as far as I can see.