Catching up with SVN

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Federico Caminiti wrote:

> 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!

Not a problem.  Actually, having that feature tested in the wild is 
really helpful.  Don't hesitate to ask questions when anything is not 
clear.  It helps improve the code and the documentation.

Thanks!

> 2016-01-22 3:09 GMT-03:00 Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>:
>       On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Federico Caminiti wrote:
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>             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?
> 
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>       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!
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