[Localization] Should I build the "ts_zh_TW_cleaned" to lupdate the qtcreator_zh_TW.ts?

[Haowei Hsu]

By the way, what about this target *"ts_zh_TW_no_locations"*?
What's the difference from the other two targets?

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Haowei Hsu

Haowei Hsu <hwhsu1231 at gmail.com> 於 2023年5月10日 週三 下午4:12寫道：

> Thanks for your detailed reply, Eike!!
>
> According to what you said,
>
> The ts_<lang> target creates .ts files that are good for using Linguist,
>> but not suitable for submitting to the repository.
>> The ts_<lang>_cleaned target creates .ts files that are acceptable for
>> the repository, but less suitable for Linguist
>
>
> If I *"don't need the suggestions"* from Qt Linguist, then I can simply:
>
>    1. use *"ts_zh_TW_cleaned"* target to lupdate the qtcreator_zh_TW.ts
>    2. do translations in qtcreator_zh_TW.ts
>    3. push the changes to Gerrit for review
>
> without using *"ts_zh_TW"* target and those complicated Git operations.
> Right?
>
> ---
> Haowei Hsu
>
> Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> 於 2023年5月10日 週三 下午3:10寫道：
>
>> I can mainly tell you what I do:
>>
>> The ts_<lang> target creates .ts files that are good for using Linguist,
>> but not suitable for submitting to the repository.
>>
>> The ts_<lang>_cleaned target creates .ts files that are acceptable for
>> the repository, but less suitable for Linguist, because it doesn't contain
>> the code locations and not the outdated translations that Linguist
>> sometimes can use to suggest translations.
>>
>> So what I do is:
>>
>> - create a .ts file for updating the repository with ts_<lang>_cleaned
>> and commit and push that to gerrit.
>> - I locally revert that commit (git revert HEAD)
>> - I create the .ts file for working with Linguist with ts_<lang> and
>> commit that locally. After that the revert from the second step can be
>> removed (git rebase -i)
>> - I do my translations and do separate commits for these
>>
>> So I end up with commits
>>
>> - translation of Y
>> - translation of X
>> - ts update with ts_<lang>
>> - ts update with ts_<lang>_cleaned
>>
>> Before pushing the translation changes to gerrit, I rebase them to before
>> the "full" ts update (the ts_<lang> one) with git rebase -i, so I end up
>> with
>>
>> - ts update with ts_<lang>
>> - translation of Y
>> - translation of X
>> - ts update with ts_<lang>_cleaned
>>
>> and push the translations to gerrit with "git push gerrit
>> HEAD~1:refs/for/<branch>". The "HEAD~1" means that it pushes everything
>> except for the top commit, which in my case then is the ts update with
>> ts_<lang> which I do not want on gerrit.
>>
>> Br, Eike
>>
>> > Am 10/05/2023 um 08:28 schrieb Haowei Hsu <hwhsu1231 at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Hello Oswald and Eike,
>> >
>> > Previously, I submitted a change for lupdating qtcreator_zh_TW.ts by
>> running the cmake --build command with ts_zh_TW target:
>> >
>> > cmake --build . --target ts_zh_TW <...>
>> >
>> > However recently, I found that there are other targets available:
>> >
>> > <image.png>
>> >
>> > Should I use another two ts_zh_TW_xxx targets to lupdate the
>> qtcreator_zh_TW.ts?
>> > Since I noticed that the current qtcreator_zh_TW.ts lupdated by
>> ts_zh_TW target has many
>> > translation fields marked as "vanished" or "obsolete".
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Haowei Hsu
>>
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