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So what's the smoothest way these days to integrate localisation repositories into your git repo?

As a background: our localisation needs to live in a separate git repo that is monitored and also updated with new translations by pootle (a translation tool) but we also want to be able to pull out the generated PO files as well as push local updates (and new texts) from within the containing project repo the localisations belong to. So merges / rebates are kinda required.

Git submodules are the worst case here as you can't really commit / push local updates to the translations back to the localisation repo without making a separate checkout, doing your changes there, then pushing to your remote and finally updating the reference for your local submodule and pulling again.

Git subtrees sounded like a good idea but they way they're implemented makes them nasty to use as well.. they tend to break if you work with pull --rebase in the containing repo and merge conflicts in the sub tree can't be resolved with a sub tree-rebase either.

In the past I used to have the localisation as a full git checkout in a sub directory of the containing project and maintained it using a few CMake scripts but I had hoped there's be something smoother by now.

#git #submodules #subtree #localisation #i18 #workflows #question #SofwareDevelopment #boostswelcome

If you want to learn something about how to not create software, have a read of paragraph 251 in https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/bates-v-post-office-appendix-1-1.pdf

This is a court document from the Post Office scandal's litigation, in which post masters were held liable for accounting losses due to (very) broken software (more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal).

This whole document is a fascinating read of failure in the software, and the criminal cover-up that followed.

#PostOfficeScandal #SofwareDevelopment

Whelp #VSCode just made the choice for me at work today. It's totally hit the skids and is now shitting the bed in new and creative ways every time I try to use it. Guess my time with #NeoVim or #HelixEditor starts asap. Bit scary jumping into modal editing + pure TUI + extensible text editor at the same time as trying to be productive.

Any recommended learning resources vimheads?

#SofwareDevelopment #IDE #FOSS #OSS

Three books I highly recommend for beginning-to-intermediate software engineers to read, and for senior devs to keep on their shelves for reference.

There's code that works, and then there's elegant code. It's a lifelong learning process to produce more of the latter.

(Titles in the image description.)

#software #softwareEngineering #sofwareDevelopment