[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-tr] size of translations, use a distinct repo?

[Werner Macho]

hmm - ok ..
Then I am going to give it a try without location and see if there are
any problems with transifex or linguist ..
If not - I also think that way is perfect ..

regards
Werner


On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 29.10.2014 14:06, Werner Macho wrote:
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>> Good idea,
>> if its really translation that causes the growth we should do
>> everything to avoid that.
>
> As Jurgen noticed, there are some useless changes in the ts files:
>
>      <message>
> -        <location filename="../src/core/qgscontexthelp_texts.cpp"
> line="327"/>
> +        <location filename="../src/core/qgscontexthelp_texts.cpp"
> line="319"/>
>
> if there are lines removed/added in the source file, this will cause changes
> in the translation file.
> Jurgen suggested to remove these tags "location filename" which would
> improve a lot.
>>
>> Is there any way to "shrink" the already existing repo?
>> At one point I thought about zipping the ts files - but if there is a
>> better way .. good!
>> I always wondered why the whole translations file has to be changed
>> whenever there are only some small changes ..
>> moving the translation in it's own github repository: hmm - I don't
>> know if thats easily possible.. but I am also willing to try it if it
>> helps the source code to stay clean.
>
> I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible.
> git submodules would be pretty useful for this matter.
>>
>>
>> But again - anyway to shrink the already existing source code?
>
> As far as I know, you can't shrink existing repo without destroying the
> history.
>>
>> I don't mind about loosing track of translation changes.
>>
>> regards
>> Werner
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/2014 12:15 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Denis,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 29. Oct 2014 at 11:08:16 +0100, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> I guess this is just due to the "location filename" stuff.  That
>>> often causes massive change in the ts files, because lines were
>>> added or removed from the source files - even if there isn't even a
>>> changed translation.
>>>
>>> I think that is not used at all for transifex and it's not that
>>> important to have in linguist either.
>>>
>>> So instead of inventing something new, all it takes might be to add
>>> "-locations none" to our lupdate call, reduce the size of the .ts
>>> files a lot (in one huge commit) and avoid useless tracking of
>>> location changes in the future.
>>>
>>> Objections?
>>>
>>>
>>> Jürgen
>>>
>>>
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