Re: git submodules vs translators

2013-07-01 Thread Ankit Patel
On 06/28/2013 05:31 AM, Colin Walters wrote: The use of git submodules in GNOME is growing - there's libgd, egg-list-box, and my own libgsystem, among others. Broadly speaking, I think that's a good thing. They offer a reasonable set of tradeoffs compared to "copylibs" like the old libegg model

Re: git submodules vs translators

2013-07-01 Thread Rafael Ferreira
2013/6/28 Petr Kovar > Hi all, > > Colin Walters , Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:01:33 -0400: > > > > > > 1) Translators: Ensure you run "git submodule update --init" after > >every git pull. > > Thanks for bringing this up. > > We already suggest in one of our GNOME L10n HOWTOs that translators > set

Re: git submodules vs translators

2013-07-01 Thread Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Ankit Patel wrote: > We are translators. We like to focus on translations. Tools or systems > that ease the translation process for us would always be beneficial to > not just translators community but also to the developers community > seeking to ensure that thei

Re: git submodules vs translators

2013-06-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 20:01 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > The use of git submodules in GNOME is growing - there's libgd, > egg-list-box, and my own libgsystem, among others. Broadly speaking, I > think that's a good thing. They offer a reasonable set of tradeoffs > compared to "copylibs" like the

Re: git submodules vs translators

2013-06-28 Thread Petr Kovar
Hi all, Colin Walters , Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:01:33 -0400: > The use of git submodules in GNOME is growing - there's libgd, > egg-list-box, and my own libgsystem, among others. Broadly speaking, I > think that's a good thing. They offer a reasonable set of tradeoffs > compared to "copylibs" like

Re: git submodules vs translators

2013-06-28 Thread Frederic Peters
Colin Walters wrote: > Any other thoughts? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599066 is the request by translators to be able to auto-commit files from damned lies, from 2009. It would help here. Fred ___ desktop-devel-list mailing li

Re: git submodules vs translators

2013-06-28 Thread Will Thompson
On 28/06/13 01:01, Colin Walters wrote: Any other thoughts? Last time I accidentally reverted a submodule update, I took a look at the recently-added 'git subtree' as a possible replacement. I haven't actually tried it in practice, and perhaps it would just replace one set of confusing gotch

git submodules vs translators

2013-06-27 Thread Colin Walters
The use of git submodules in GNOME is growing - there's libgd, egg-list-box, and my own libgsystem, among others. Broadly speaking, I think that's a good thing. They offer a reasonable set of tradeoffs compared to "copylibs" like the old libegg model. However, git submodules are easy to screw up