Updating the command-line help translation

[mgedmin]

The command-line help message is split into two large strings. When anything changes, the entire 40-line string becomes fuzzy and it's difficult to understand what exactly needs to be updated.

Has anyone any tips on how to get the message id from git history at the point before its translation became fuzzy and diff it against the current one?

Would it maybe be possible to split these messages into one msgid per command-line option?

[mgedmin]

Figured out a trick: git blame on the #, fuzzy line, then look at that commit and it shows the diff very nicely!

[mgedmin]

Speaking of that particular diff, I noticed that the translation sync script tries to helpfully modify the translated option message string by putting the untranslated new English option description in the right place among the other options. But it didn't add the second part of the change, where -O can be added to -Q as well.

It looks like whoever updated en_GB.po to remove the fuzzy comment didn't notice and so its msgid describes both -D -O and -Q -O, but msgstr describes only one of those. That probably ought to be fixed.

[flatcap]

whoever updated en_GB.po

Argh! That'll be me.

-D -O and -Q -O, but msgstr describes only one of those.
That probably ought to be fixed.

Done it. Thanks.

[flatcap]

Figured out a trick: git blame on the #, fuzzy line

For vim users, there's a plugin vim-fugitive which will let you git blame in the editor (and much more).

[mgedmin]

Yup, I absolutely love fugitive!