====== Cleanup translator comments ======

Translate Toolkit 1.1 saw source comments being converted to developer comments instead of translator comments.

This use case shows you how to get rid of the old translator comments.

===== The Change =====

We used to put all source comments into translator comments. 

  # Some Comment

But now place them in developer comments.

  #. Some Comment

This ensures that these source comments are updated to the newest versions from the source files, which is a good thing.  Translator comments survive these updates, just like you want, while developer comments are discarded.

If you don't clean up your PO files you will now end up with:

  # Some Comment
  #. Some Comment

Thus a duplicated comment.  Fortunately you only need to clean your PO files once.


===== Removing old translator comments =====

<note warning>This will remove all your translator comments.  So if you have some that you actually want to keep then you will need to manual editing</note>

Removal is simple using [[pocommentclean]]:

  pocommentclean my-po-dir

Which will clean all your PO files in ''my-po-dir''

''pocommentclean'' is simply a nice wrapper for this sed command:

  sed -i "/^#$/d;/^#[^\:\~,\.]/d" $(find po -name "*.po")

This will delete all lines starting with # that are not used by PO for locations (#:), automatic/developer comments (#.), state (#,) and obsolete (#~).

You can now safely commit your changes and begin your migrations using [[pot2po]] of [[pomigrate2]]