Re: [bug-gettext] [PATCH] Incorporate PODIFF feature into gettext-tools

[Daiki Ueno]

Alexander Potashev <address@hidden> writes:

> I could not successfully apply podiff.txt on
> gettext-runtime-0.18.eo.po,

Ah, yes, I missed "patch applicability".  If we preseve that property
with the plain diff format, we must not normalize the first input file
of the diff program.  Still, we could minimize the output by making the
second input resemble the first input as much as possible (e.g. by
preserving comments).

Otherwise, maybe we need a special "patch" program as in Pology.

> but its format looks very close to the plain diff format. If this is
> the case, then PODIFF has a field of application different from the
> "poediff" from the Pology toolkit, since you definitely cannot apply
> embedded diffs with the "patch" program.

One good thing of PODIFF I forgot to mention is that it can be hooked
into "git diff", where the plain diff format might be seen as natural.

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno