Translations reverted to a previous value

[davidlashkhi]

Describe the issue

Translations that have been saved in Weblate are being automatically and silently reverted to a previous value. There is no error message or notification when this occurs. This issue happens randomly across all projects and languages.

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar filed issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

his issue happens randomly across all projects and languages

Expected behavior

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Git checkout

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[michael-smt]

This can happen when the text is changed inside the file in the repository, outside of Weblate. That's what is meant with "String updated in the repository" AFAIK.

@davidlashkhi Check the history of this language's file in the repository to see who/what changed it back to the previous Italian text.

[nijel]

It can also happen if there is an issue with saving the file - Weblate thinks it saved the change, but actually didn't. Look into the repository to figure out more.

[davidlashkhi]

hello, thanks for replies. I can see that actually the change was never saved as @nijel mentioned. In the repository there's no such commit. Where should I look into to fix this on weblate side?

[nijel]

Does it happen on the latest Weblate and translate-toolkit versions? What file format do you use?

[davidlashkhi]

Yes, we have the latest weblate version, and a separate repo for ios and android translations. For iOS we use native Localizable.strings, for Android strings.xml

[bra1n]

We're running into the same issue! Whenever changes are made to the source (English) file via VCS, a lot of other (waiting for review) translations in other languages are automatically removed with the same webhook. We've enabled the setting to only propagate translations that are approved to VCS, but it should absolutely not toss any unverified translations if unrelated languages (or the source language) has been changed through VCS.

[bra1n]

I've created a bug ticket for this issue: #16458

[nijel]

This can indeed happen with a non-default commit policy as described in #16458. The workaround is to use the default commit policy until the issue is addressed.

[davidlashkhi]

@nijel I unfortunately don't see Commit Policy in weblate UI (it's mentioned that this feature has been added in version 5.13) and we use it as a hosted service

[nijel]

It is in the project settings.

[bra1n]

This should be fixed with 5.1.4 now

[bra1n]

Looks like it's not... 😬

[nijel]

There was indeed one corner case left out; https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/releases/tag/weblate-5.14.1 fixes that as well.