tx pull does not overwrite by default

[xrmx]

It looks like tx pull does not overwrite by default as calling it i get:

tx INFO: Skipping 'fr' translation (file: readthedocs/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/django.po).
...

Is it expected? If so i don't understand what --disable-overwrite is supposed to do:

  --disable-overwrite   By default transifex will fetch new translations files
                        and replace existing ones. Use this flag if you want
                        to disable this feature

[akien-mga]

I've been having this issue for years, and I think it's due to my local files in Git having a newer timestamp than their Tx equivalent (e.g. if I ran git pull in my local clone after the latest changes have been made in Tx, my local files will have a newer timestamp than the Tx files, even though they might not have all changes from Tx).

For example, with tx-client 0.13.4:

$ tx -d pull -l fr
<snip>
tx DEBUG: Adding to new translations: set()
tx DEBUG: Pulling languages for: {'fr'}
tx INFO: Pulling translations for resource mageia.drakx_share (source: libDrakX.pot)
tx DEBUG: Using file fr.po
tx DEBUG: Remote time is 1506189480.0 and local 1532333236.0
tx DEBUG: Local is newer than remote for lang fr
tx INFO: Skipping 'fr' translation (file: fr.po).
tx INFO: Done.

[m-aciek]

@akien-mga what was you workaround for this then?

[rffontenelle]

@akien-mga what was you workaround for this then?

tx pull -f to force the download disregarding its remote/local time.

I can reproduce this issue in version 0.13.6, Arch Linux 64-bit.

[rffontenelle]

For what is worth, this is the function the compares the remote and local timestamp. Not sure what is the solution for it, though.

[m-aciek]

In my opinion there are two strategies that could improve current behaviour:

• Checking git log for each file and looking up date of last modification from there.
• Doing content comparison for files.

[m-aciek]

This issue is potentially duplicate of #22.

[kevr]

* Doing content comparison for files.

100% agree; a hash to rule the world.