# protocol for updating .po gettext files? 2 messages from 2018-05-28 to 2018-05-28. Participants: Robert P. J. Day, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48584 ## Robert P. J. Day, 2018-05-28 11:56 Subject: protocol for updating .po gettext files? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.2.21.1805280754160.8049%40localhost.localdomain ``` 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? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2018-05-28 13:47 Subject: Re: protocol for updating .po gettext files? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqvab7j3ix.fsf%40gitster-ct.c.googlers.com In-Reply-To: ``` "Robert P. J. Day" writes: > 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. ```