Updating .pot files

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Stephen,

> What's the procedure for updating .pot files?

Ad hoc. :-)  Ideally they should be regenerated any time a translatable
string is changed or added.  But in practice this rarely happens.  The
most common time is when a release branch is created, and the regeneration
is one of the steps in this process.


> For example with the gas.pot file, I see Nick's commit 1b1bb2c67bb on
> Jan 18 2020 for "Update version to 2.34.50.  Regenerate configure and
> .pot files."  But git annotate shows the file was subsequently updated
> by commit 8f595e9b4fd on May 20 2020 even though that file is not
> shown in the git diff for that commit.  There must be some magic there
> somewhere.

Nope - just a snafu - the update should have been mentioned in the commit.

Cheers
  Nick