For translators, a diff should be as small as possible.
Why?
If I want to update pg-num-rows.xml in the de-tree, I see have two options:
first:
remove whitespaces, change the doc-skel and then update the translation. This means redoing everything Christopher has already done in the en-pg-num-rows.xml.
second:
copy the en-file with the new structure and replace the english text with the german text or translate the updates.
In both cases I don't care how big or small the diff is because I have to change the whole file.
I know that at least the Hungarian translators do that:
- look up diff of English file (from revcheck)
- change the Hungarian file according to the diff
If the diff contains irrelevant changes (ws), it is getting harder. If ws is done in a separate commit, it can be steped over (with incremental diffing).
Goba