Re: size of .po changesets

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:21:35AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue ago 23 11:01:05 -0400 2012:
>
> >
> > $ git diff --shortstat REL9_0_9 REL9_1_5
> > 3186 files changed, 314847 insertions(+), 210452 deletions(-)
> > $ git diff --shortstat REL9_1_5 REL9_2_BETA4
> > 2037 files changed, 290919 insertions(+), 189487 deletions(-)
> >
> > However, when you look at things a bit closer, these numbers are
> > misleading because they include the .po files, which seem to have huge
> > inter-branch churn --- well in excess of 100000 lines changed per
> > release, at least in git's simpleminded view.
>
> Yeah, IMHO .po files are handled pretty badly by SCMs. I wonder if we
> could reduce the amount of git churn caused by those files by simply
> removing all comment lines from these files as they are exported from
> pgtranslation into postgresql.git? Since they are not "source" for
> postgresql.git anyway, the other one being the canonical repository,
> there doesn't seem to be any point to those lines ... or am I mistaken?

Have you considered adding "--no-location" to XGETTEXT_OPTIONS in
po/Makevars? This stops the massive churn through line renumbering
changes.

Regards,
Roger

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