Re: Q3 GNOME quarterly report

[Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian grijincu gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org> wrote:
> My point in this was that for "real" and meaningful statistics we
> already have damned-lies, so if you want to see any data regarding a
> language, module or release set go there and figure it out.


I second that.
Number of lines in a "git diff" does not show much in a git commit.

.po files keep track of the filename and line number where the English
string came from. If the programmer adds a line to the top of a file
all the strings in the .po file will have their line number changed.

At least you need to filter out changed lines that start with a "#" (a
comment) if you plan to use that metric.

This makes .po commits huge (lots of useless diffs) even when you're
translating just one new string.


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