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    i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:" · 47fbfded
    Jiang Xin authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    
    
    When extract l10n messages, we use "--add-comments" option to keep
    comments right above the l10n messages for references.  But sometimes
    irrelevant comments are also extracted.  For example in the following
    code block, the comment in line 2 will be extracted as comment for the
    l10n message in line 3, but obviously it's wrong.
    
            { OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "ignore-removal", &addremove_explicit,
              NULL /* takes no arguments */,
              N_("ignore paths removed in the working tree (same as
              --no-all)"),
              PARSE_OPT_NOARG, ignore_removal_cb },
    
    Since almost all comments for l10n translators are marked with the same
    prefix (tag): "TRANSLATORS:", it's safe to only extract comments with
    this special tag.  I.E. it's better to call xgettext as:
    
            xgettext --add-comments=TRANSLATORS: ...
    
    Also tweaks the multi-line comment in "init-db.c", to make it start with
    the proper tag, not "* TRANSLATORS:" (which has a star before the tag).
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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