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Suppressing comments from git diff of .po files
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How to suppress comments when performing git diff on .po files.

Taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2006351/gettext-po-files-under-version-control

Changes in the codebase can alter line numberings given in .po 'comments'. While such changes should be committed they make obsecure the actual translation changes made, and make auditing them difficult.

  1. Create /usr/local/bin/strippocomments as given in this gist.

  2. Set up pre-processing of .po files by editing .git/info/attributes and adding:

     *.po diff=podiff

  3. Edit .git/config and add the line

     [diff "podiff"]
     textconv = /usr/local/bin/strippocomments
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grep -vE '^#:|POT-Creation-Date' $1
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