Re: What's up with the .texi files always "changing"?

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Just add them to .gitignore would hide the issue. As long as we don't forget to commit the texi files along with uodates to the po files, it's fine.

Another solution would be to find a way to be able to generate them completely, so we don't need to add them to git. The issue is that the autotools don't like that: they refuse to work if the texi files are not present, which would be the case for fresh checkouts. I'd prefer this kind of solution though.

Note that .po files are also updated after a fresh make on a clean checkout, but maybe less often than the translated manuals.

Le 20 décembre 2018 09:08:54 GMT+01:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
>Hello,
>
>Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:
>
>> Changes not staged for commit:
>>   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>>   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working
>directory)
>>
>> 	modified:   doc/contributing.de.texi
>> 	modified:   doc/contributing.fr.texi
>> 	modified:   doc/guix.de.texi
>> 	modified:   doc/guix.fr.texi
>>
>> Why does this keep happening?  If these are autogenerated, why are
>they
>> committed into git?  If they aren't autogenerated, why are they
>changing?
>
>They are automatically updated, but not actually “generated”: fellow
>hackers like Julien worked hard to write these translations.  :-)
>
>However it seems that updates are triggered too often, presumably since
>commit 7565d40e1e583b35148088bcf79760b9f95f91d9.
>
>Julien, any idea how we could improve on this?
>
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.