Do all developers need rake gettext:compile?
When we install/update GitLab with GDK, we run rake gettext:compile
which (at least on my system) creates a lot of changes in the locale folder. (Diff size is 8k lines according to git diff.)
These changes are not relevant to the part of the application I'm working on, and they get in the way of using Git normally. I am basically forced to run git checkout -- locale
manually each time I run gdk reconfigure
.
@rdavila (I hope you're the right person to ask) can you tell me / explain to me:
- for my understanding, why do we need to run
rake gettext:compile
all the time, aren't the files checked into Git "good enough"? - to how many developers are the local changes in /locale relevant?
I don't have an overview for how many people the /locale changes are relevant, and for how many they're just noise. If they are noise to a large majority perhaps we can create an opt-in mechanism in GDK so that developers who are working on locale-related things always get rake gettext:compile
but by default we don't run it.