Re: rebased patches?

[Jim Meyering]

Bo Borgerson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> This brings up another (as yet unwritten) guideline:
>>   Don't change translatable strings if you can avoid it.
>>   If you must rearrange lines, extract and create new strings, rather than
>>   extracting and moving into existing blocks.  This avoids making unnecessary
>>   work for translators.
...
>> Yes, I'll add this to HACKING RSN ;-)
>
> If it helps I've pushed a branch called HACKING that adds a new section
> for translatability tips and includes your guideline above verbatim. ;)

It does, indeed.  Thank you.  I've pushed this addition:

  Be nice to translators
  ======================
  Don't change translatable strings if you can avoid it.
  If you must rearrange individual lines (e.g., in multi-line --help
  strings), extract and create new strings, rather than extracting
  and moving into existing blocks.  This avoids making unnecessary
  work for translators.