Re: improvement feature for msgmerge

[Karl Eichwalder]

Pablo Saratxaga <address@hidden> writes:

> however, when doing "msgmerge -C big.po old.po template.pot > new.po"
> if "old.po" has some fuzzy entries, they will be kept, even if
> translated versions exist in big.po

Using msgattrib/msgcat you can work around this limitation.

1/ Save all fuzzies:

msgattrib --only-fuzzy --force-po -o fuzzies.po old.po

2/ Update fuzzies:

msgcat --use-frist -o unfuzzied.po big.po fuzzies.po

3/ Make the original file fuzzy free:

msgattrib --force-po --no-fuzzy -o fuzzy-free.po old.po

4/ Finally merge it using fuzzies.po as an additional catalog:

msgmerge -C big.po -C unfuzzied.po -o new.po fuzzy-free.po template.pot

Or something along these lines - untested thus far.  Other scenarios are
also possible.

> it would be nice to have an --overwrite-fuzzy parameter so that
> if there is a translated entry in one of the -C files, it will
> overwrite a fuzzy entry in old.po, eg:
>
> msgmerge --overwrite-fuzzy -C big.po old.po template.pot > new.po

I admit such an option would be nice esp. when large files are involved.