====== pomigrate2 ======

pomigrate2 aims to move an existing translation to a new
version based on updated PO Template files automatically without user intervention.  
Therefore it is ideal for when you are
migrating many languages or migrating from related but divergent products e.g.
Mozilla to Firefox.


===== Prerequisites =====

GNU Gettext:
  * [[man>msginit]]
  * [[man>msgcat]]
  * [[man>msgmerge]]



===== Usage =====

pomigrate [options] <from> <to> <new templates>

Where:
| from           | is a directory of existing PO files  |
| to             | is the directory where the migrated PO files will be stored  |
| new templates  | this is the directory that contains the PO Template files    |

Options:
| -F, --use-fuzzy-matching | use fuzzy algorithms when merging to attempt to match strings  |
| -C, --use-compendium     | create and use a compendium built from the migrating files |
| -C, --use-compendium=some-compendium.po  | use an external compendium during the migration  |
| --no-wrap                | do not wrap long lines |
| --locale                 | set locale for newly born files  |
| -q, --quiet              | suppress most output   |
| -p, --pot2po             | use pot2po instead of msgmerge to migrate   |

===== Operation =====

pomigrate2 makes use of the Gettext tools msgmerge or Translate Toolkit's [[pot2po]] 
to perform its merging tasks.  

It firstly finds all files with the same name and location in the <from> directory
as in the <template> directory and copies these to the <to> directory.  If there is no 
file in the <from> directory to match one needed by the <template> directory then
it will msgcat all files in the <from> directory with the same name and copy them to
the correct destination in the <to> directory.  If all of that fails then 
msginit is used to initialise any missing PO files.

Lastly all the files in <to> are merged using msgmerge or pot2po.  This process updates the files
to match the layout and messages in <templates>.  Optionally, by using --use-compendium, 
a compendium of all the translations in <from> can be created to be used in the final merge process.

===== Bugs =====

None known