Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] Makefile: sort "po/git.pot" by file location

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> Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> writes:
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> > From: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
> >
> > We will feed xgettext with more C souce files and in different order in
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> "source"
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> > subsequent commit. To generate a stable "po/git.pot" regardless of the
> > number and order of input source files, we add a new option
> > "--sort-by-file" to xgettext program.
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> Probably: ... we pass the option "--sort-by-file"
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> > With this update, the newly generated "po/git.pot" will has the same
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> "will have"
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> > entries while in a different order.
> >
> > With the help of a custom diff driver as shown below,
> >
> >     git config --global diff.gettext-fmt.textconv \
> >         "msgcat --no-location --sort-by-file"
> >
> > and appending a new entry "*.po diff=gettext-fmt" to git attributes,
> > we can see that there are no substantial changes in "po/git.pot".
> >
> > We won't checkin the newly generated "po/git.pot", because we will
> > remove it from tree in a later commit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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> This has no input from me (yet), so technically it is a bit
> premature to add my sign-off here.  It wouldn't make a difference to
> the end result, though ;-)