Re: [PATCH/RFC 15/17] po/is.po: add Icelandic translation

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 15:29, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>>
>>>> --- a/po/is.po
>>>> +++ b/po/is.po
>>>> @@ -11,35 +11,154 @@ msgstr ""
>>>>  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
>>>>  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
>>>>
>>>> -#: t/t0200/test.c:4
>>>> +#: builtin/init-db.c:34
>>>
>>> Is there a diff driver that will ignore these --add-location lines?
>>>
>>> Alternatively, would it be possible to get msgmerge and xgettext to
>>> provide the filenames without the line numbers?  My experience is
>>> that most translation diffs are very hard to read because about 80%
>>> noise. :(
>>>
>>> Aside from that, this looks good and sane (well, the English part
>>> I can read does).
>>
>> Some context, an earlier discussion on this:
>> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/5/30/31415/thread#mid-31415
>>
>
> msgmerge and xgettext does seem to have the --no-location flag to
> avoid these annotations from being generated. The documentation does
> say "Note that using this option makes it harder for technically
> skilled translators to understand each message's context. ", though.
> But perhaps the annotated versions could be generated when needed and
> never checked-in (similar to what you suggested in that e-mail)? It
> sounds to me like that would give us the best of all worlds. If it's
> possible, that is.