[libvirt PATCH 5/7] po: generate .pot file with strings in alphabetical order

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Tue May 19 09:55:07 UTC 2020


The .po files are stored with strings in alphabetical order instead of
source file location order, because this minimizes the diffs created
when code moves around within or between files.

By default msgmerge will honour the order of strings in the .pot file
when creating a .po file, so it is useful if we also create the .pot
file with desired ordering.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
---
 po/Makefile.am | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/po/Makefile.am b/po/Makefile.am
index 224f16e993..a31f8ba584 100644
--- a/po/Makefile.am
+++ b/po/Makefile.am
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ XGETTEXT_ARGS = \
 	--package-name="$(PACKAGE_NAME)" \
 	--package-version="$(PACKAGE_VERSION)" \
 	--msgid-bugs-address="$(MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS)" \
+	--sort-output \
 	$(NULL)
 
 SED_PO_FIXUP_ARGS = \
-- 
2.26.2




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