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 the 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 the 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. Authorize the public Weblate SSH key (see Weblate SSH key) to access the upstream repository this way.

Предупреждение

On GitHub, the key can be added to only one repository. Other solutions are to be found in the corresponding sections below.

Weblate also stores the host key fingerprint upon first connection, and fails to connect to the host should it be changed later (see Verifying SSH host keys).

In case adjustment is needed, do so from the Weblate admin interface:

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Weblate SSH key

Generate or display the public key currently used by Weblate in the (from SSH keys) on the admin interface landing page. Once done, Weblate should be able to access your repository.

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

Примечание

The corresponding private SSH key can not currently have a password, so make sure it is well protected.

Подсказка

Make a backup of the generated private Weblate SSH key.

Verifying SSH host keys

Weblate automatically remembers the SSH host keys on first access and remembers them for further use.

In case you want to verify them before connecting to the repository, verify the SSH host keys of the servers you are going to access in Add host key, from the same section of the admin interface. Enter the hostname you are going to access (e.g. gitlab.com), and press Submit. Verify its fingerprint matches the server you added. They are shown in the confirmation message:

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HTTPS repositories

To access protected HTTPS repositories, include the username and password in the URL. Don’t worry, Weblate will strip this info when the URL is shown to users (if even allowed to see the repository URL at all).

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

Примечание

If you 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, configure the VCS to use it.

This can be done using the http_proxy, https_proxy, and all_proxy environment variables, (as described in the [cURL documentation](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/)) or by enforcing it in the VCS configuration, for example:

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

Примечание

The proxy configuration needs to be done under user running Weblate (see also Filesystem permissions) and with HOME=$DATA_DIR/home (see DATA_DIR), otherwise Git executed by Weblate will not use it.

Git

См.также

See Accessing repositories for info on how to access different kinds of repositories.

Git with force push

This behaves exactly like Git itself, the only difference being that it always force pushes. This is intended only in the case of using a seperate repository for translations.

Предупреждение

Use with caution, as this easily leads to lost commits in your upstream repository.

GitHub repositories

Access via SSH is possible (as mentioned above), but in case you need to access more than one repository, you will hit a GitHub limitation on allowed SSH key usage (since one key can be used only for one repository).

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

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

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

Customizing Git configuration

Weblate invokes all VCS commands with HOME=$DATA_DIR/home (see DATA_DIR), therefore editing the user configuration needs to be done in DATA_DIR/home/.git.

Git remote helpers

You can also use Git remote helpers for additionally supporting other version control systems, but be prepared to debug problems this may lead to.

At this time, helpers for Bazaar and Mercurial are available within separate repositories on GitHub: git-remote-hg and git-remote-bzr. Download them manually and put somewhere in your search path (for example ~/bin). Make sure you have the corresponding version control systems installed.

Once you have these installed, such remotes can be used to specify a repository in Weblate.

To clone the gnuhello project from Launchpad using Bazaar:

bzr::lp:gnuhello

For the hello repository from selenic.com using Mercurial:

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

Предупреждение

The inconvenience of using Git remote helpers is for example with Mercurial, the remote helper sometimes creates a new tip when pushing changes back.

GitHub

Добавлено в версии 2.3.

This adds a thin layer atop Git using the hub tool to allow pushing translation changes as pull requests, instead of pushing directly to the repository.

Git pushes changes directly to a repository, while GitHub creates pull requests. The latter is not needed for merely accessing Git repositories.

Pushing changes to GitHub as pull requests

If not wanting to push translations to a GitHub repository, they can be sent as either one or many pull requests instead.

Configure the hub command line tool and set GITHUB_USERNAME for this to work.

См.также

GITHUB_USERNAME, Setting up hub for configuration instructions

Setting up hub

Pushing changes to GitHub as pull requests requires a configured hub installation on your server. Follow the installation instructions at https://hub.github.com/ use hub to finish the configuration, for example:

# Use DATA_DIR as configured in Weblate settings.py, it is /app/data in the 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 in ~/.config/hub. This file has to be readable by the user running Weblate.

Примечание

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

Gerrit

Добавлено в версии 2.2.

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

The Gerrit documentation has the details on the configuration necessary to set up such repositories.

Mercurial

Добавлено в версии 2.1.

Mercurial is another VCS you can use directly in Weblate.

Примечание

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

См.также

See Accessing repositories for info on how to access different kinds of repositories.

Subversion

Добавлено в версии 2.8.

Weblate uses git-svn to interact with subversion repositories. It is a Perl script that lets subversion be used by a Git client, enabling users to maintain a full clone of the internal repository and commit locally.

Примечание

Weblate tries to detect Subversion repository layout automatically - it supports both direct URLs for branch or repositories with standard layout (branches/, tags/ and trunk/). More info about this is to be foud in the git-svn documentation.

Изменено в версии 2.19: Before this, there was only support for standard layout repositories.

Subversion credentials

Weblate expects you to have accepted the certificate up-front and if needed, your credentials. It will look to insert them into the DATA_DIR directory. Accept the certificate by using svn once with the $HOME environment variable set to the DATA_DIR:

# Use DATA_DIR as configured in Weblate settings.py, it is /app/data in the Docker
HOME=${DATA_DIR}/home svn co https://svn.example.com/example

См.также

DATA_DIR

Local files

Добавлено в версии 3.8.

Weblate can also operate without a remote VCS. The initial translations are imported by uploading them. Later you can replace individual files by file upload, or add translation strings directly from Weblate (currently available only for monolingual translations).

In the background Weblate creates a Git repository for you and all changes are tracked in in. In case you later decide to use a VCS to store the translations, you already have a repo within Weblate can base your integration on.

GitLab

Добавлено в версии 3.9.

This just adds a thin layer atop Git using the lab tool to allow pushing translation changes as merge requests instead of pushing directly to the repository.

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 requests

If not wanting to push translations to a GitLab repository, they can be sent as either one or many merge requests instead.

Configure the lab command line tool and set GITLAB_USERNAME for this to work.

См.также

GITLAB_USERNAME, Setting up Lab for configuration instructions

Setting up Lab

Pushing changes to GitLab as merge requests requires a configured lab installation on your server. Follow the installation instructions at lab and run it without any arguments to finish the configuration, for example:

# Use DATA_DIR as configured in Weblate settings.py, it is /app/data in the 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 is saved to ~/.config/lab.hcl)

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

Примечание

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