The .po files are stored with strings in alphabetical order instead of source file location order, because this minimizes the diffs created when code moves around within or between files. By default msgmerge will honour the order of strings in the .pot file when creating a .po file, so it is useful if we also create the .pot file with desired ordering. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- po/Makefile.am | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/po/Makefile.am b/po/Makefile.am index 224f16e993..a31f8ba584 100644 --- a/po/Makefile.am +++ b/po/Makefile.am @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ XGETTEXT_ARGS = \ --package-name="$(PACKAGE_NAME)" \ --package-version="$(PACKAGE_VERSION)" \ --msgid-bugs-address="$(MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS)" \ + --sort-output \ $(NULL) SED_PO_FIXUP_ARGS = \ -- 2.26.2
