Re: workflow

[ng0]

Chris Marusich transcribed 1.6K bytes:
> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > You can stash those po/* files, it's the first thing I do if I ever
> > happen to work on a complete new checkout.
> 
> Do you stash JUST the po files?

Yep. And I never stash apply them back. There's a stash of the po that I have
for about almost as long as I contribute to Guix.

> I have often found these po files very
> annoying while trying to make changes to Guix and test locally.  I think
> that if I do "git stash" and later "git stash pop", it updates the
> timestamps of many files, so "make" rebuilds many, many things that it
> really doesn't have to.
> 
> Beyond doing "git checkout po" are there any other ways to deal with
> these po files that won't negate make's incremental build feature?
> 
> -- 
> Chris

Maybe we could add them to .gitignore, but I haven looked into the
buildsystem for some time, if that would affect for example make dist.
But as long as you don't run make dist you could have them in a .gitignore.

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