Re: Please pull git-l10n updates for git v1.7.12-146-g16d26

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2012, 04:31 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8B8EtMWnJdPqNQ6J-NA+qpv2HXjo-rC5YkFQ9-GqkV1Mg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2012/9/14 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
>> (Dropping translators as they probably are not interested in this)
>>
>> I saw a gnu project does this (I don't remember what project). If we
>> update .po* files with --no-location, we can avoid a lot of diff
>> noises due to line number changes. A typical translator does not care
>> about these lines anyway. Those who do can easily search the string in
>> source files without them.
>
> I believe some translators need these location infomation to find the
> context.

Unless you are also a git developer, I doubt if sha1_file.c makes sense to any translators. In my 8 years of being translator/programmer to open source world, I rarely look at those lines (though I admit I do). A slightly modified suggestion is just drop line number, not the file name, but xgettext does not support that, unfortunately.

-- 
Duy