[Freeipa-devel] Removing ipa.pot file from git tree

[David Kupka]

On 22/11/16 13:37, Martin Basti wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> we plan to remove ipa.pot file from git tree, as this is file can be
> generated from code during build time, and it is required only for
> pushing sources to Zanata. Does anybody remember reason why this file
> was added into git tree?
>
> Note: Translated strings (*.po files) will remain in git tree.
>
>
> If nobody is against it will be removed from git today, as it creates
> only huge diffs all the time without any extra value.
>
>
> Martin^2
>

Hi!

+1, if we can generate it there's no reason to keep it in git.

git log reveals that is was added back in 2010 when adding support for 
internalization: 
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=4461a74

-- 
David Kupka