Re: [bug-gettext] msgmerge --diff-to-previous (feature request)

[Ineiev]

On 10/30/2011 07:02 PM, Alexander Potashev wrote:
> 2011/10/30 Ineiev <address@hidden>:
> > Probably all programs would be happy if msgmerge used something like "# |"
> > for diffs, but such lines would accumulate on every subsequent merging.
>
> Do you mean "# |" with a space in between? That would work as
> translators' comments ("human" comments),

Exactly.

> so that you'll break human comments.

My guess was that they won't break human comments, just add more
lines.

> > > «#* msgid "(diff to previous msgid)"» gets accepted silently by
> > > Lokalize and even by libgettextpo-0.18.1.1.
> > Do they add it to human comments?
>
> Lokalize doesn't add "#* msgid" into translators' ("human") comments,
> it most likely just ignores all "#* ..." lines. Don't know about
> libgettextpo (should I check it?)

Quick test with msgcat from gettext-0.17 shows that when I add
'#* ' after '#| msgid "..."' it throws an error message; when
it is before '#| msgid ', it replaces the prefix with "# *"
and moves the line up, before all gettext-managed comments.