Re: od --help: many translations provide invalid option advice

[Pádraig Brady]

On 22/05/11 10:24, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> ...
>>> Is there some way that I (as upstream coreutils maintainer)
>>> can perform the global substitutions to correct all of those .po files?
>>
>> For the recent df column alignment changes I updated all translations,
>> and just tarred up the pot (named like coreutils-8.13-pre1.pot) and po files,
>> and sent them to address@hidden who promptly
>> updated everything.
> 
> Nice.  That would be efficient and quick.
> My only concern is that a team could be in the process
> of updating translations independently, and our changes
> might cross -- does the TP use a version control system for
> the .po files?  Not as far as I can see.
> 

Well I started with the latest from the translation project.
I didn't worry too much about independent changes as
msgmerge etc. can be used to merge automatically.
It's very unlikely that there will be independent changes
to the particular strings you're changing.

cheers,
Pádraig.