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Re: msgmerge --previous option vs. diff output



	hi!

Am Mittwoch, den 25.07.2007, 10:23 +0200 schrieb Jens Seidel:
> --previous is helpful but for really large msgid's it's useless. I
> would rather prefer if --previous creates a patch format to compare
> the old and new format ...

 It's not useless.  As writing really large msgids[tm] without any help
on proper wrapping and stuff is "useless" anyway (using your wording) it
doesn't make things worse.

 Tools that support writing large msgids with proper support for
wrapping around the text should have no problem with hooking in wdiff
for comparing the previous and the current msgid.

 patch format doesn't really help here anyway: the msgid will get
wrapped where gettext thinks its proper so if you remove something in
the first line the complete really large msgid will get wrapped and your
"patch format" would simply include the complete string from start to
the end.  wdiff is the only way to go.

> It should not be too late to change this in gettext. Other comments?

 I really don't think its gettext's call for that, especially since
gettext failed anyway with the format for the msgid and msgstr so tools
_are_ required to handle it proper, especially for really large msgids.

 So long,
Rhonda

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