Updating/merging translations

[Dimitris Glezos]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Alexander Todorov <atodorov at redhat.com> wrote:
>  Hello,
>  can some msgmerge guru help with the following situation:
>  I have a RHEL5 po file with untranslated strings which are translated in F8/F9
>  po files for the same package. How can I grab only the translated stuff (without
>  the new strings) and merge them with the RHEL5 po file?

I might be missing something, but wouldn't `msgmerge f8.po rhel5.po`
work? By using rhel5 as the template, only new translations for
existing msgids will be brought from f8, no?

-d

>  Any ideas are welcome before I sit down and start writing a script.
>  I don't want to copy&paste strings but I'd like to re-use the work done by other
>  translators.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Alexander.




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