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14.7 Integrating with Version Control Systems ¶

Many projects use version control systems for distributed development and source backup. This section gives some advice how to manage the uses of gettextize, autopoint and autoconf on version controlled files.

• Avoiding version mismatch in distributed development
• Files to put under version control
• Put the PO Template File under Version Control or not?
• Put the PO Files under Version Control or not?
• Invoking the autopoint Program
• Invoking the po-fetch Program