When running make from a clean environment, all of the *.po files should be converted into *.msg files. After that, when make is run without any changes, make should not do anything. After beffae768a (gitk: Add Chinese (zh_CN) translation, 2017-03-11), zh_CN.po was introduced. When make was run, a zh_cn.msg file was generated (notice the lowercase). However, since make is case-sensitive, it expects zh_CN.po to generate a zh_CN.msg file so make will keep reattempting to generate a zh_CN.msg so successive make invocations result in Generating catalog po/zh_cn.msg msgfmt --statistics --tcl po/zh_cn.po -l zh_cn -d po/ 317 translated messages. happening continuously. Rename zh_CN.po to zh_cn.po so that when make generates the zh_cn.msg file, it will realize that it was successfully generated and only run once. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> --- po/{zh_CN.po => zh_cn.po} | 0 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) rename po/{zh_CN.po => zh_cn.po} (100%) diff --git a/po/zh_CN.po b/po/zh_cn.po similarity index 100% rename from po/zh_CN.po rename to po/zh_cn.po -- 2.23.0.248.g3a9dd8fb08