Re: Re: [GITK PATCH] gitk: add menuitem for file checkout from selected or parent commit

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2010, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinn-_Npv4+wGRkS6Sonf1VRV-cEMtHBEtyQeq8O@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100929152259.GA13887@book.hvoigt.net>

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:23, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:09:43PM +0000, Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 20:03, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:
>> > This is useful if a user wants to checkout a file from a certain
>> > commit. This is equivalent to
>>
>> It looks like the existing msgid/msgstr pairs have line number
>> comments. Why not add that for the new strings? Presumably it might
>> inflate the patch a lot though, as old strings get displaced.
>
> I was wondering what these numbers were for. Now it makes sense. I am
> not against doing it but I would need a script to update the existing
> ones. Is there something like that? Otherwise I would just add the line
> number for the two new msgs.

You should update PO files with the msgmerge(1) program, the ab/i18n branch has docs on how to do that in po/README.

But as Michele points out you probably shouldn't update these, some projects do, but it probably makes more sense to leave these updates up to translators.