From: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:43:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Bulgarian translation of git
Message-ID: <CANYiYbHkbUvL-d4M0iOyE5F-6rM=swk_knGEFTr9HGBK6T9UDg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120213133957.GA4838@burratino>

2012/2/13 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> I wonder if there's a simple to ask the gettext tools to make a po
> template including strings from both 'maint' and 'master'.  (Hackish way
> demonstrated below.)
>
> Hopefully that would make it easier for translators to keep both
> tracks well maintained at the same time.  If a problem in the
> translation of a string shared by 'master' and 'maint' is only noticed
> while working on 'master', there would be no need to go through the
> "switch branches; make the change; switch back; merge" dance.
>
> What do you think?

Translators on a new language may not like this. Translating the obsolete
messages in pot file is boring and waste of time.

>  po/git.pot: $(LOCALIZED_C)
> -       $(QUIET_XGETTEXT)$(XGETTEXT) -o$@+ $(XGETTEXT_FLAGS_C) $(LOCALIZED_C)
> +       cp $@ $@+

Failed if po/git.pot does not exist. touch one first?

> +       $(QUIET_XGETTEXT)$(XGETTEXT) -o$@+ --join-existing $(XGETTEXT_FLAGS_C) $(LOCALIZED_C)
>        $(QUIET_XGETTEXT)$(XGETTEXT) -o$@+ --join-existing $(XGETTEXT_FLAGS_SH) \
>                $(LOCALIZED_SH)
>        mv $@+ $@

-- 
Jiang Xin