From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:48:03 GMT Subject: Re: Re: [GITK PATCH] gitk: add menuitem for file checkout from selected or parent commit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100929152259.GA13887@book.hvoigt.net> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:23, Heiko Voigt wrote: > 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 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.