Subject: Re: bug#58571: translations are incompletely pulled from weblate

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 09:11:24 +0200

On 16-10-2022 18:33, two--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> hi
> in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/po/guix/uk.po i see kyrylo's translations are pulled there from weblate, but mine (https://translate.fedoraproject.org/changes/?project=guix&lang=uk&user=two22) are not, these strings stay untranslated or erroneous. [...]

If I guess correctly, translations are currently moved from weblate to 
Guix by overwriting the local .po with a copy from weblate and likewise 
in the other direction.

However, a 'msgmerge' program exists: 
‘https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/msgmerge-Invocation.html’. 
Maybe that could be used?

Also, on pushing new .po to weblate, 'git push' has a '--with-lease' 
option, which IIUC is a kind of 'atomic compare-and-swap' operation, 
which could help with avoiding race conditions.

Greetings,
Maxime.