As Michael S pointed out, po/POTFILES.in gets updated every other commit just because the sort command has different semantics on different systems. This is a pain because it affects the po files too.
Why is that? The current command used to sort is "sort -f -n", where -f is to ignore case and -n is for numeric sorting. First, the -n seems bogus, and on my system it actually prevents case ignoring. This is why when I commit the file the case is preserved, while others commit a POTFILES.in with case ignored. I tried to use "sort -f" only, but it is not yet portable since I get the following diff: -src/insets/insetbib.C src/insets/inset.C +src/insets/insetbib.C So in one case '.' is before 'b' and in the other case it is after. Why are different sort implementations do different things, I don't know. So what should we do? Maybe remove the options altogether and use a plain "sort"? Would that give the same result for everybody? JMarc
