.gitattributes

@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@
 *.h	text
 *.hpp	text
 
+*.pot	text	filter=clean_pot
+
 Makefile	text

po/tpl/rmrf.pot

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 msgid   ""
 msgstr  "Project-Id-Version: rmrf 0.1\n"
         "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-        "POT-Creation-Date: 2021-01-02 21:02+0100\n"
         "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
         "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
         "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"

scripts/clean_pot.sh

+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+# Script to clean up automated changes to .pot files
+# Install by: git config filter.clean_pot $PATH_TO_REPO/scripts/clean_pot.sh
+
+grep -v '"POT-Creation-Date:'