Added --previous flag to msgmerge command used by makemessages

Also took the opportunity to slightly refactor gettext options
so as to ease customization by subclassing the command.
Thanks Michal Čihař for the report and initial patch.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index 853f64b936..4571c24d3d 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -569,6 +569,11 @@ Example usage::
 
     Added the ability to specify multiple locales.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 1.7
+
+    Added the ``--previous`` option to the ``msgmerge`` command when merging
+    with existing po files.
+
 .. django-admin-option:: --domain
 
 Use the ``--domain`` or ``-d`` option to change the domain of the messages files.
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
index 6c1ab36c90..359bc4d217 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
@@ -572,6 +572,10 @@ Internationalization
   app or project message file. See :ref:`how-to-create-language-files` for
   details.
 
+* The :djadmin:`makemessages` command now always adds the ``--previous``
+  command line flag to the ``msgmerge`` command, keeping previously translated
+  strings in po files for fuzzy strings.
+
 * The following settings to adjust the language cookie options were introduced:
   :setting:`LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE`, :setting:`LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN`
   and :setting:`LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH`.