Re: [PATCH 00/10] Factorization of messages with similar meaning

"Jean-Noël Avila via GitGitGadget"  [off-list ref] writes:

This series is a meager attempt at rationalizing a small fraction of the
internationalized messages. Sorry in advance for the dull task of reviewing
these insipide patches.

Doing so has some positive effects:

 * non-translatable constant strings are kept out of the way for translators
 * messages with identical meaning are built identically
 * the total number of messages to translate is decreased.

I'm inclined to even go a step further and turn these messages into #define
or const strings.

After looking at [01/10] that repeats the same string in many
places, I would have to say that we do not want such C preprocessor
macros.  Having to hunt for an existing message that is close enough
to what you want to say, when you are writing a new message, feels a
bit too much.

I wonder if a tool that

 - looks for "newly added" messages (by scanning "git diff" output)

 - compares them with po/git.pot for existing msgid in a fuzzy way
   to locate the ones that may be candidate for a change like the
   changes in this series

can help developers, though.

Thanks.