Re: Bulgarian translation of git

2012/2/13 Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref]:

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