[Kde-scm-interest] git migration and translation of documentation

[Frederik Schwarzer]

[Christoph Cullmann - Samstag 04 September 2010 21:04:59] 
> On Saturday 04 September 2010 19:58:34 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Hi, this is just a heads up so that people that has not seen me bitch on
> > irc knows.
> > 
> > The switch of KDE to git will break the process that creates .pot from
> > original docbooks and translated docbooks from .po files since that uses
> > svn externals to the doc folders of each module
> > 
> > I was going to work on a simple fix (create a script that checked out the
> > doc/ folder of a git module) for it today but then i realized that git
> > does not support the checkout of subdirectories so my simple fix was
> > rendered impossible.
> > 
> > Since i'm not too found of doing what seems lots of work to workaround the
> > weaknesses of git (that i was told was the greatest scm ever) i'll let the
> > ones that really want to make us switch find a solution.
> > 
> > As always i'm open for help in explaining the problem and discussing
> > possible solutions.
> I you only need a snapshot of the directory, you could use git archive to get 
> it. I do that at work to have subdir-exports available.
> 
> But if you need history and Co., just forgot my mail.

The doc/ folders do not change that much, do they? In that case it
might not be the best choice to download them every day just to
figure that out. Or is there a way to see if a certein folder
contains changes without downloading it?

What about using symlinks? If you have checkouts of all modules
anyway (which you do for string extraction, right?), you could
have another folder with symlinks to the doc/ folders, which
should look like the externals from the script's point of view.

Regards