[Phpmyadmin-devel] FAO: Michal. Dealing with merge conflicts in po files

Rouslan Placella rouslan at placella.com
Thu Aug 2 14:49:16 CEST 2012


On 02/08/2012 13:30, Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
>
> Dne Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:26:21 +0200
> Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com> napsal(a):
>
>> I just had a conflict while merging QA_3_5 into master and I wasn't sure
>> how to resolve it. The problem was the po file for Catalan language that
>> was heavily modified in d72f329301c28d222facce53e3da67deeb41b782.
>>
>> So, the first question is: why didn't Weblate merge QA_3_5 into master
>> after committing? And if it didn't merge because of the conflicts, then
>> why did it commit and push something that cannot be automatically merged
>> in the first place?
>
> It does not merge it in git sense, because po files are usually very
> different between branches.

I see.

>> And the second question is: what is the correct thing to do when
>> something like that happens? What I did was discard all the changes in
>> that l10n file from the QA_3_5 branch, although I'm not sure if this
>> might have any implications (losing some translated strings?)...
>
> Yes, you did right thing. I've also documented this on the wiki:
>
> https://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Translation_server#Merging_different_branches

Excellent, thanks.

Bye,
Rouslan




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