Version control integration

Weblate currently supports Git (with extended support for GitHub, Gerrit and Subversion) and Mercurial as version control backends.

Accessing repositories

The VCS repository you want to use has to be accessible to Weblate. With a publicly available repository you just need to enter correct URL (for example git@github.com:WeblateOrg/weblate.git or https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate.git), but for private repositories the setup might be more complex.

Weblate internal URLs

To share one repository between different components you can use a special URL like weblate://project/component. This way, the component will share the VCS repository configuration with referenced component and the VCS repository will be stored just once on the disk.

SSH repositories

The most frequently used method to access private repositories is based on SSH. To have access to such a repository, you need to authorize Weblate SSH key (see Weblate SSH key) to give it access to the upstream repository.

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On GitHub, you can add the key to only one repository. See the following sections for other solutions for GitHub.

Weblate also stores host key fingerprint on first connection and fails to connect to the host in case it is later changed (see Verifying SSH host keys).

In case some adjustment is needed, you can do that in the Weblate administration interface:

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Weblate SSH key

You can generate or display the key currently used by Weblate in the admin interface (follow SSH keys link on main admin page). Once you’ve done this, Weblate should be able to access your repository.

The public key is visible to all users on the About page.

Nota

The keys need to be without password to make it work, so be sure they are well protected against malicious usage.

Consejo

You can backup the Weblate generated private key as well.

Verifying SSH host keys

Before connecting to the repository, you also need to verify SSH host keys of servers you are going to access in the same section of the admin interface. You can do this in the Add host key section. Just enter hostname you are going to access (eg. gitlab.com) and press Submit. After adding it please verify that the fingerprint matches the server you’re adding, the fingerprints will be displayed in the confirmation message:

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HTTPS repositories

To access protected HTTPS repositories, you need to include the username and password in the URL. Don’t worry, Weblate will strip this information when showing the URL to the users (if they are allowed to see the repository URL at all).

For example the GitHub URL with authentication might look like https://user:your_access_token@github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate.git.

Nota

In case your username or password contains special characters, those have to be URL encoded, for example https://user%40example.com:%24password%23@bitbucket.org/...`.

Using proxy

If you need to access http/https VCS repositories using a proxy server, you need to configure the VCS to use it.

This can be configured using the http_proxy, https_proxy, and all_proxy environment variables (check cURL documentation for more details) or by enforcing it in VCS configuration, for example:

git config --global http.proxy http://user:password@proxy.example.com:80

Nota

The proxy setting needs to be done in the same context which is used to execute Weblate. For the environment it should be set for both wsgi and Celery servers. The VCS configuration has to be set for the user which is running Weblate.

Git

Git is first VCS backend that was available in Weblate and is still the most stable and tested one.

Ver también

See Accessing repositories for information how to access different kind of repositories.

Git with force push

This behaves exactly same as Git, with the only difference that it always does force push. This is intended only for cases where you have separate repository where you push your translations.

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Use with caution, using this can easily lead to losing commits in your upstream repository.

GitHub repositories

You can access GitHub repositories by SSH as mentioned above, but in case you need to access more repositories, you will hit a GitHub limitation on the SSH key usage (one key can be used only for one repository). There are several ways to work around this limitation.

For smaller deployments, you can use HTTPS authentication using a personal access token and your account, see Creating an access token for command-line use.

For a bigger setup, it is usually better to create dedicated user for Weblate, assign him the SSH key generated in Weblate and grant him access to all repositories you want.

On Hosted Weblate, adding weblate user is enough to grant the service access to the repository. Once you invite the bot, it accepts the invitation within five minutes and you can use SSH URL to access your repo (for example git@github.com:WeblateOrg/weblate.git`). This is same as described in Pushing changes from Hosted Weblate.

Customizing Git configuration

Weblate invokes all VCS commands with HOME pointed to home directory in DATA_DIR, therefore if you want to edit user configuration, you need to do this in DATA_DIR/home/.git.

Git remote helpers

You can also use Git remote helpers for supporting other VCS as well, but this usually leads to other problems, so be prepared to debug them.

At this time, helpers for Bazaar and Mercurial are available within separate repositories on GitHub: git-remote-hg and git-remote-bzr. You can download them manually and put somewhere in your search path (for example ~/bin). You also need to have installed appropriate version control programs as well.

Once you have these installed, you can use such remotes to specify repository in Weblate.

To clone gnuhello project from Launchpad with Bazaar use:

bzr::lp:gnuhello

For hello repository from selenic.com with Mercurial use:

hg::http://selenic.com/repo/hello

Advertencia

Please be prepared to some inconvenience when using Git remote helpers, for example with Mercurial, the remote helper sometimes tends to create new tip when pushing changes back.

GitHub

Nuevo en la versión 2.3.

This just adds a thin layer on top of Git to allow push translation changes as pull requests instead of pushing directory to the repository. It currently uses the hub tool to do the integration.

There is no need to use this to access Git repositories, ordinary Git works the same, the only difference is how pushing to a repository is handled. With Git changes are pushed directly to the repository, while GitHub creates pull requests.

Pushing changes to GitHub as pull request

If you are translating a project that’s hosted on GitHub and don’t want to push translations to the repository, you can have them sent as a pull request instead.

You need to configure the hub command line tool and set GITHUB_USERNAME for this to work.

Ver también

GITHUB_USERNAME, Setting up hub for configuration instructions

Setting up hub

Pushing changes to GitHub as pull request requires a configured hub installation on your server. Follow the installation instructions at https://hub.github.com/ and perform an action with hub to finish the configuration, for example:

# DATA_DIR is set in Weblate settings.py, set it accordingy.
# Is is /app/data in Docker
HOME=${DATA_DIR}/home hub clone octocat/Spoon-Knife

The hub will ask you for your GitHub credentials, retrieve a token and store it into ~/.config/hub. This file has to be readable by user running Weblate.

Nota

Use the username you configured hub with as GITHUB_USERNAME (WEBLATE_GITHUB_USERNAME for the Docker image).

Gerrit

Nuevo en la versión 2.2.

Adds a thin layer atop Git to allow pushing translation changes as Gerrit review requests, instead of pushing a directory to the repository. Currently uses the git-review tool to do the integration.

Please refer to the Gerrit documentation for setting up the repository with necessary configuration.

Mercurial

Nuevo en la versión 2.1.

Mercurial is another VCS you can use directly in Weblate.

Nota

It should work with any Mercurial version, but there are sometimes incompatible changes to the command line interface which break Weblate.

Ver también

See Accessing repositories for information how to access different kind of repositories.

Subversion

Nuevo en la versión 2.8.

Thanks to git-svn, Weblate can work with subversion repositories. Git-svn is a Perl script that enables the usage of subversion with a git client, enabling users to have a full clone of the internal repository and commit locally.

Nota

Weblate tries to detect Subversion repository layout automatically - it supports both direct URLs for branch or repositories with standard layout (branches/, tags/ and trunk/). See git-svn documentation for more information.

Distinto en la versión 2.19: In older versions only repositories with standard layout were supported.

Subversion Credentials

Weblate expects you to have accepted the certificate upfront and inserted your credential, if needed. It will look into the DATA_DIR directory. To insert your credential and accept the certificate, you can run svn once with the $HOME environment variable set to the DATA_DIR:

HOME=${DATA_DIR}/home svn co https://svn.example.com/example

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DATA_DIR

Local files

Nuevo en la versión 3.8.

Weblate can operate without remote VCS as well. The initial translations are imported by ZIP upload. Later you can replace individual files by file upload or add translation strings directly in Weblate (currently available only for monolingual translations).

In the background Weblate creates Git repository for you and all changes are tracked in in. In case you decide later to use VCS to store the translations, it’s already within Weblate and you can base on that.

GitLab

Nuevo en la versión 3.9.

This just adds a thin layer on top of Git to allow pushing translation changes as merge requests instead of pushing directly to the repository. It currently uses the lab tool to do the push.

There is no need to use this access Git repositories, ordinary Git works the same, the only difference is how pushing to a repository is handled. With Git changes are pushed directly to the repository, while GitLab creates merge request.

Pushing changes to GitLab as merge request

If you are translating a project that is hosted on GitLab and don’t want to push translations to the repository, you can have them sent as a merge request.

You need to configure the lab command line tool and set GITLAB_USERNAME for this to work.

Ver también

GITLAB_USERNAME, Setting up lab for configuration instructions

Setting up lab

Pushing changes to GitLab as merge request requires a configured lab installation on your server. Follow the installation instructions at https://github.com/zaquestion/lab#installation and perform and run it without any arguments to finish configuration, for example:

# DATA_DIR is set in Weblate settings.py, set it accordingy.
# Is is /app/data in Docker
$ HOME=${DATA_DIR}/home lab
Enter GitLab host (default: https://gitlab.com):
Create a token here: https://gitlab.com/profile/personal_access_tokens
Enter default GitLab token (scope: api):
Config saved to ~/.config/lab.hcl

The lab will ask you for your GitLab access token, retrieve a token and store it into ~/.config/lab.hcl. The file has to be readable by user running Weblate.

Nota

Use the username you configured lab with as GITLAB_USERNAME (WEBLATE_GITLAB_USERNAME for the Docker image).