When making builds and checking for modifications, we will

ignore any and all po files as far as git is concerned, and
after check is done, we reset our index to once again show
if the po/*.po files were modified.

build_tools/autorevision

@@ -95,9 +95,13 @@ gitRepo() {
 	VCS_TYPE="git"
 	VCS_BASENAME="$(basename "${PWD}")"
 
-	 # Is the working copy clean?
+	# Check if working copy is clean, however, we will ignore any and all po files
+	# when we determine if modifications were done.
+	git update-index --assume-unchanged po/*.po
 	test -z "$(git status --untracked-files=no --porcelain)"
 	VCS_WC_MODIFIED="${?}"
+	# now, reset index back to normal
+	git update-index --no-assume-unchanged po/*.po
 
 	# The full revision hash
 	VCS_FULL_HASH="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"