Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
True, and it is not just that. The install target would fail
because it cannot find zh_CN.msg, I think.
> 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
This would make this in line with pt_{pt,br}.po, existing locales
with country code in them.
Reviewed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
