Re: protocol for updating .po gettext files?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 28, 2018, 13:47 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvab7j3ix.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1805280754160.8049@localhost.localdomain>

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:

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>    i was going to submit a minor patch to fix grammar here:
>
> builtin/init-db.c: warning(_("templates not found %s"), template_dir);
>
> as it should display "templates not found in %s" to be consistent with
> other messages, but i know from nothing about .po files, so does one
> also have to update those, or how does that work?

You as a developer generally don't. Instead, you just update the code i.e.

	-	warning(_("t not found %s"), t);
	+	warning(_("t not found in %s"), t);

and leave it up to the i18n coordinator to update *.pot and *.po so that localization teams can work on it, which all happens closer to the next release.

I think po/README has a bit more details describing which part is handled by whom.