Catching up with SVN

[Federico Caminiti]

Ok, it worked without a hitch. It seems I missed chapter 12.4 of de FDP
which clearly states that make PO updates a PO file.

Sory for the noise!

2016-01-22 3:09 GMT-03:00 Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>:

> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Federico Caminiti wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently making a spanish translation of the FAQ. Since it's a rather
>> large document its taking a lot of time, though I hope to have it
>> completed
>> soon-ish (more or less next week  if I maintain my current pace). The
>> problem is that, in the meantime, a couple of changes were made to the
>> handbook and I have to catch up with to those changes. In the past I ve
>> dealt with this by recreating the .PO file and just copy/pasting the
>> translated sentences. This worked because the documents in question were
>> as
>> not huge as the FAQ, but doing this approach now seems kind of
>> impractical.
>>
>> Is there any automated method to update the .PO file while keeping the
>> sentences I've translated intact?
>>
>
> The PO system is meant to do that automatically.  When you use 'make po'
> and a PO file already exists, the new changes are merged with the existing
> PO file.  A PO editor will normally show the new strings to be translated
> at the top.
>
> If that is not working, please describe the process you use so we can try
> to debug it.
>
> Thanks!
>