[Bug translator/10552] document '-M' (bulk merge) flag

[dsmith at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From dsmith at redhat dot com  2009-09-01 19:41 -------
After looking at the source a bit, I don't believe the '-M' option does anything
or is tested.

There is a 'merge' field in the translator's session object.  Specifying '-M'
does change its value, but no translator code appears to look at the value
(except to make sure it isn't set with other incompatible options).

It isn't really tested either.  There is some basic command line option testing
to make sure you can't specify '-M' with other options.  It is also used when
doing testing of the cache feature to make sure it changes the cache hash.  But,
I don't see a real functional test of '-M'.

Perhaps since it doesn't really do anything, that's why it isn't documented.

We should think about making it do something (assuming we can remember what it
was supposed to do) or remove it altogether.

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