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 -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
