On Thursday, February 03, 2011, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:

> Hmm, from my point of view diffs are very usefull. There might be
> situations where they look scrambled.

To understand what I mean by "scrambled" let's look at the Spanish update I 
just committed.  I changed about 13 strings, and I consider anything more than 
maybe three times that number of changed lines to be excessive.  I counted by 
eye and got bored after 100 changed lines.  I estimate 150+ from changing 13 
strings.

Multiply that by all the languages we have, and unless you're committing a 
small number of changes to a single language, the bugs list message is not 
going to go through, because it's too large.  Sometimes these things are in 
excess of 10 MB, and that is all PLAIN TEXT!  WOW, that's a LOT of changes!  
Generate 100 new strings, generate 10 MB of diffs.  Holy cow!

Where this is a problem is because every time somebody commits one of these 
things, I get nagged every single morning in perpetuity until I take time out 
to go to the moderation queue and delete the excessively large message.  It 
really gets on my nerves, and when Chris committed that property change 
earlier today, a light bulb went off in my head.  Ah hah!  I can make the nag 
messages cease to be a problem at LONG LAST!  WOOOO!

> Most of the time I would like to
> check what has changed before comitting. Also it is easier to handle diffs
> from other translators than complete ts files ...

Now that I think about all the ways diffs could be useful, I guess I have to 
revert that change.  It just won't work.

It's a damn shame though.  I thought I had finally solved this stupid problem 
once and for all.  I really am extremely tired of having to deal with this 
ridiculous situation.

If the Qt tools didn't generated about 1,000% more text than is really 
required, it wouldn't be a big deal at all.  The lupdate tool seems to 
rearrange things just for the merry hell of it.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre

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