<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marco Pesenti Gritti</b> <<a href="mailto:mpgritti@gmail.com">mpgritti@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/31/07, Sayamindu Dasgupta <<a href="mailto:sayamindu@gmail.com">sayamindu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ** Current Status **<br>><br>> Most of the scripts, etc are ready, and we are quite satisfied with the
<br>> results of what we have seen so far using local repositories. The only<br>> major "blocker" issue that is left to be resolved is the question of GIT<br>> access to <a href="http://dev.laptop.org">
dev.laptop.org</a> for the Pootle user. The most optimal solution<br>> for this is to use the newly released support for GIT submodules (where<br>> the po directory can be a separate submodule of a project). This<br>
> isolates the PO directory from the rest of the project, minimising the<br>> chances of Pootle messing something other than translations :-).<br>><br>> However, we would like to hear from developers on this - does having a
<br>> new submodule under your project tree complicate your job ? Information<br>> on git submodules and how to use them is available at<br>> <a href="http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSubmoduleTutorial">http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSubmoduleTutorial
</a></blockquote><div><br>From my point of view this is not really necessary, we can keep on doing our actual simlinks and script scheme, although is not an entirely integration to git (from the pootle point of view), from the
d.l.o side is the better solution, but anyway im not saying that we shouldn't keep on trying to find a complete solution for this, but this solution does not have to be so complex.<br><br>So i agree with marco that we have to write a tutorial about this, but the procedure is not difficult, taking in count that we have to handle the translation sync from the translate machine, and this is made by git pull from all the activities.
<br><br>cheers!<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is this really necessary? Git is complicated enough for new comers so
<br>if we can avoid additional complexity I think we should do it.</blockquote><div><br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Also, a short tutorial on how an activity author would set it up would<br>probably help to evaluate this better.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Marco<br>_______________________________________________<br>Localization mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Localization@lists.laptop.org">
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