[5/9] po/git.pot: don't check in result of "make pot"

Commit Message

Jiang Xin May 3, 2022, 1:23 p.m. UTC

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[e-mail]>

Remove the "po/git.pot" file from being tracked, which started with
dce37b66fb0 (l10n: initial git.pot for 1.7.10 upcoming release,
2012-02-13).

The reason the po/git.pot started being checked in was because the
po/*.po files were changed a schema where we'd generate them from a
known-good snapshot of po/git.pot, instead of each translator running
"make pot" themselves.

This makes sense, but we don't need to carry this file in-tree just to
achieve that aim, and doing so has resulted in a significant amount of
"diff churn" since this method of doing it was introduced:

    $ git log -p --oneline -- po/git.pot|wc -l
    553743

We can instead let l10n contributors to generate "po/git.pot" in runtime
to update their own "po/XX.po", and the l10n coordinator can check
pull requests using CI pipeline.

This reverts to the schema introduced initially in cd5513a7168 (i18n:
Makefile: "pot" target to extract messages marked for translation,
2011-02-22).

The actual "git rm" of po/git.pot is deferred until the subsequent
commit, to make this change easier to review, and to preempt the
mailing list from blocking it due to it being too large.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <[e-mail]>
---
 Makefile      | 1 +
 po/.gitignore | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4b7cb2be65..2f28648900 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3312,6 +3312,7 @@  dist-doc: git$X
 
 distclean: clean
 	$(RM) configure
+	$(RM) po/git.pot
 	$(RM) config.log config.status config.cache
 	$(RM) config.mak.autogen config.mak.append
 	$(RM) -r autom4te.cache
diff --git a/po/.gitignore b/po/.gitignore
index 796b96d1c4..37d1301b32 100644
--- a/po/.gitignore
+++ b/po/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@ 
 /build
+/git.pot