Re: dropping .po generated files from repository?

[James Youngman]

On 6/28/07, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Many GNU projects that omit autotools-generated files from their version
> control also omit the .po files (for example, coreutils, tar, m4, ...),
> provided that bootstrapping the package from a fresh checkout includes
> obtaining canonical .po files from the translation project.  Versioning
> the .po files tends to create a lot of churn, particularly when
> developing, since the line numbers within the .pot file change, and
> therefore every single .po file is updated and has a spurious merge
> difference in relation to the patch at hand.  Is it worth changing
> findutils to also omit .po and related generated files from version control?

It's an interesting idea.   But if we did that, how would we manage a
stable and a development branch?

James.