Re: gnulib's translation

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 15:38 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Ah, you were assuming that the POT file is stored in the version
> > control system?  This is a practice that produces problems,
> 
> What problems does this produce?  (Probably this was discussed
> earlier and elsewhere?  Maybe have a URL of an archived message?)

I'm not sure what Bruno was referring to but one issue is that POT
files contain timestamps, so source control systems consider them
"modified" every time they're rebuilt even if nothing else changes.

It's also possible that different versions of gettext could generate
slightly different POT files, so if committers have different versions
installed you get "warring commits" which change them back and forth. 
I don't know if POT files have this issue but other files generated by
autotools certainly do.