debian man page for pomigrate2

pomigrate2(1)						      Translate Toolkit 1.3.0						     pomigrate2(1)

NAME
       pomigrate2 - Migrates PO files from an old version using new POT files.

SYNOPSIS
       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, and new-templates is the
       directory that contains the PO Template files.

DESCRIPTION
       pomigrate2 aims to move an existing translation to a new version based on updated PO Template files automatically  without  user  interven-
       tion.  Therefore it is ideal for when you are migrating many languages or migrating from related but divergent products eg Mozilla to Fire-
       fox.

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(1) instead of msgmerge(1) to migrate (you cannot use compendia)

OPERATION
       pomigrate2 makes use of the Gettext tools msgmerge or Translate Toolkits pot2po to perform its merging tasks.

       It firstly finds all files with the same name and location in the from directory as in the new-template directory and copies these  to  the
       to  directory. If there is no file in the from directory to match one needed by the new-template directory then it will msgcat(1) 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(1)
       is used to initialise any missing PO files.

       Lastly  all the files in <to> are merged using msgmerge(1) or pot2po(1). This process updates the files to match the layout and messages in
       new-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

							      Translate Toolkit 1.3.0						     pomigrate2(1)