Re: Adding translations

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:33:25AM +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:25:35AM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> > 
> > * Always check your file with "msgfmt -cv LL.po" before all commits, to
> > catch some easily made syntactic errors that might otherwise crash the
> > software at runtime, and other errors.
> 
> I need to know what is LL.po - is it just a notation for the
> language in question - ie. da.po for Danish - or is there a specific
> file? (people are nagging me for a LL.po file...)
> 
> > * Make sure the po file doesn't have the executable bit (+x) set before
> > committing. There's no point in storing the po file as an executable in
> > cvs.
> > 
> > * Always add a ChangeLog entry when you add or change stuff in CVS. This
> > is important to be able to easily see what file was added or changed at
> > what point. A ChangeLog entry should preferrably look something like:
> 
> Why? Is there not a CVS log and is that not appropiate.

You can only read the CVS log when you are connected to the Internet and
have a CVS copy available (or via the sometimes very slow web
interface). You _always_ have the ChangeLog available and it's much
faster than 'cvs log ...'.

Plus, it's traditional. :-)

Malcolm