Re: [committers-guide] Problem with stubborn string

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 8:54 AM Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm having some trouble with a string in the committers guide. While
> translating in Weblate, there was some clear error since there was
> this string shown in the original as:
>
> ====== Time to update When it is time to bring in a new version, it is...
>
> Apparently that doesn't cause any problems rendering the English
> version of the document, but the translated versions show the heading
> and the paragraph in the same style as if everything is a heading
> (bold font, etc).
>
> I committed a change to have two different strings:
>
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=fb40f7a6d80b21aa0da2d2ed43c9e9051b3e3f8b
>
> Now in Weblate we have a string with the text:
>
> ====== Time to update
>
> and then the paragraph:
>
> When it is time to bring in a new version, it is almost the same...
>
> I translated both of them.
>
> Now, the problem is that when I try to execute translate.sh, the .po
> file that is generated has everything again in a single line:
>
> msgid ""
> "====== Time to update When it is time to bring in a new version, it is "
> "almost the same as w/o the branches.  You would update like you would above, "
> "but there is one extra command before you update, and one after.  The "
> "following assumes you are starting with an unmodified tree.  It is important "
> "to start rebasing operations with a clean tree (Git requires this)."
>
> and then the doc is not rendered properly. The English original is ok,
> with two separated strings though.
>
> Any ideas what's happening here?

Well, it was PEBKAC. It is a bit embarrassing as I couldn't make it
work so I deleted the branch completely and downloaded the .po file
again. Now everything looks fine.
Sorry for the noise.

>
> Thanks!