[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] make update-pot will not touch pot file if msgid's are unmodified

[Rob Crittenden]

John Dennis wrote:
> Resending modified patch. I discovered the original patch had a minor 
> bug which might leave temporary files in the directory. Please use this 
> patch instead.
> 
> On 02/20/2010 11:15 AM, John Dennis wrote:
>> Formerly running 'make update-pot' would write an insignificantly
>> different pot file even if the msgid's xgettext found were unmodfied.
>> Now the result of running xgettext is compared to the existing
>> pot file after adjusting for things like timestamps, and only
>> copies the result of xgettext to the new pot file if there
>> were differences.
>>
>> This will help eliminate git commits on the pot file if all one
>> did was see if the pot file was up to date, if it was up to date
>> git won't see any modifications. It used to be that timestamps
>> would be different in the pot file just by virtue of checking
>> if the pot file was current.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________

Ack, pushed this updated patch.