# HG changeset patch
# User palgarvio
# Date 1181591038 0
# Node ID 0df95a4047afc98b2d05a5b39ea508deb687daa2
# Parent  72c7ac3846094becd91ffe1a82b0e53e1896d354
Completely fixed the bug reported by pjenvey, partially addressed on [87].

diff --git a/babel/messages/frontend.py b/babel/messages/frontend.py
--- a/babel/messages/frontend.py
+++ b/babel/messages/frontend.py
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@
                     parser.error('%r is not a directory' % dirname)
                 extracted = extract_from_dir(dirname, method_map,
                                              options_map, keywords,
-                                             comment_tags=options.comments)
+                                             comment_tags=options.add_comments)
                 for filename, lineno, message, comments in extracted:
                     filepath = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(dirname, filename))
                     catalog.add(message, None, [(filepath, lineno)],