2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c52ba9a7b..19fb92cab 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2007-08-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
+	bootstrap: when fetching .po files, do not remove .gmo files.
+	* bootstrap (get_translations): Don't remove *.gmo files!
+	They can be expensive to regenerate.
+
 	Create .gitignore and/or .cvsignore from scratch, if absent.
 	This is in preparation for my removing those files from version
 	control in the directories managed by gnulib-tool.
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index b8a8f482d..a9efa7be9 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ get_translations() {
   ?*)
     echo "$0: getting translations into $subdir for $domain..." &&
 
-    (cd $subdir && rm -f dummy `ls | sed -n '/\.gmo$/p; /\.po/p'` &&
+    (cd $subdir && rm -f dummy `ls | sed -n '/\.po/p'` &&
      $WGET_COMMAND -r -l1 -nd -np -A.po $TP_URL/$domain)
     ;;
   esac &&