From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 07:41:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] difftool: word spacing fix
Message-ID: <c536bd3a-d1ae-a617-c284-dabc9f8c1c0f@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJDDKr4LfTC8h00NCLSu5J=oBTX3LWshrOXMQ7_iBi4RNie9sA@mail.gmail.com>

On 21/09/21 04.26, David Aguilar wrote:
> But!.. and this is a big but... the po/ translations would be broken
> by this change.
> 
> I'm unfamiliar with the policy about changes that affect translations,
> but in general this seems like a situation where we can make things
> easier for the translation team by not leaving behind further work.
> 
> My gut feeling is that this patch would be easier to accept if it also
> updated the po/ translations to fix these typofixes.
> 
> Question for this list -- would that be a separate patch or not? To me
> it seems like it'd all be one patch so that git is never in an
> in-between state.
> 

I think you should see po/README for details.

In other words: we can change translatable strings here as we want, and 
it's the responsibility of l10n teams to update translations to stay up 
to date.

> The following commands show a few places of interest that should also
> be updated.
> 
> $ git grep 'combined diff formats('
> $ git grep 'tool returns a non - zero'

I git-grep-ed that, and nothing outside po/ matched.

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