Re: [PATCH 10/25] gettextize: git-merge basic messages
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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- Sep 3, 2010, 18:06 UTC
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 17:51, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> Those issues might be a bit hard, but I still can't really see how >> managing these files outside of git.git would make things easier. > > The translationproject.org thing was a red herring. As you noticed, > the relevant thing is "outside of git.git". > > So imagine there is a git-translations.git project, perhaps. My > only point was that versioning of translations and versioning of > code can beneficially (in my opinion) be decoupled: with time, > the translations for even _old_ versions of git improve, too. > >> maybe we should just use >> msgmerge with --no-location. > > That would partially alleviate my concerns, and I think we might be > able to get the --add-location output back in actual checkouts with > a "smudge" filter.
After looking at this all closer I found that these line messages really aren't that important to gettext's operation. So I'm in the process of removing them from the ab/i18n series.
I documented the new process: http://github.com/avar/git/raw/ab/i18n/po/README
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>> But I'd like to coordinate things on this mailing list > [...] >> without some external service being mandatory. > > No objection here. :) > > Of course, what is convenient for translators and maintainers (i.e., > not me) takes precedence anyway; I am just throwing out ideas. > > Thanks for your thoughtfulness.
Sure, thanks for consistently commenting on all of this. It's great to get feedback like this.