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1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2
3Checking for needed translation updates
4=======================================
5
6This script helps track the translation status of the documentation in
7different locales, i.e., whether the documentation is up-to-date with
8the English counterpart.
9
10How it works
11------------
12
13It uses ``git log`` command to track the latest English commit from the
14translation commit (order by author date) and the latest English commits
15from HEAD. If any differences occur, the file is considered as out-of-date,
16then commits that need to be updated will be collected and reported.
17
18Features implemented
19
20-  check all files in a certain locale
21-  check a single file or a set of files
22-  provide options to change output format
23-  track the translation status of files that have no translation
24
25Usage
26-----
27
28::
29
30   ./scripts/checktransupdate.py --help
31
32Please refer to the output of argument parser for usage details.
33
34Samples
35
36-  ``./scripts/checktransupdate.py -l zh_CN``
37   This will print all the files that need to be updated in the zh_CN locale.
38-  ``./scripts/checktransupdate.py Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst``
39   This will only print the status of the specified file.
40
41Then the output is something like:
42
43::
44
45    Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst
46    No translation in the locale of zh_CN
47
48    Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
49    commit 42fb9cfd5b18 ("Documentation: dev-tools: Add link to RV docs")
50    1 commits needs resolving in total
51
52Features to be implemented
53
54- files can be a folder instead of only a file
55