L10n.gnome.org: unable to submit user guide translation to repository due to unknown git error

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Hello,

I am attempting to submit a new user guide Bulgarian translation for epiphany to GNOME 49 on damned-lies, however, I am receiving an error related to the repository and the submission fails because of it. I receive the exact same error with gnome-boxes and gnome-software, so it’s not specific to one repository:

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None of those user guides have been translated to Bulgarian before, that’s one thing they have in common. Does anybody know what the issue might be or has had it before? I can’t find anything related to it on the damned-lies gitlab or here on discourse. I’d appreciate any feedback, so that I can submit the translations.

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Thanks for reporting! That sounds like Feature: add new documentation (help files) directly from DL when none exists yet (#437) · Issues · Infrastructure / damned-lies · GitLab that was closed recently, but looks like it might need reopening. I have linked this thread from there.

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Oh, thanks for letting me know. I didn’t check the closed issues, my bad! I’ll follow that page for the time being then.

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Hi both of you!

As I indicated in the issue, from a Damned Lies perspective, I think there is nothing I can do. It’s related to the pre-receive hook that check commits coming from Damned Lies, mainly for security reasons.

Thanks!

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Hey Bernard, the issue for resolving this (Cannot submit documentation translation to Gitlab repositories (#2087) · Issue · Infrastructure/Infrastructure) was closed due to inactivity. If its okay can you re-open a new one for it, so that it can be resolved? Its a blocker for submitting documentation and Bulgarian has a lot of core apps waiting to be submitted, I would be really grateful if it can be resolved!

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@gbernard Can you take a look at this issue again please, it would be of great help!

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Thanks for the reminder @twlvnn!

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Applied a potential fix, please retry, thanks!

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I tried to submit gnome-software and gnome-clocks but they still give the following errors (the rest of the gnome apps’ documentation in my profile that are ready to be submitted give the same error):

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Maybe the fix still needs time to propagate, I will try later in the day/this week and let you know how it goes! I can’t help but feel like I’m doing something wrong because I don’t know if any other translation team is having this issue, thank you for trying to resolve it!

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Can you please provide a way to reproduce this? Can you pastebin a diff of the proposed git changes?

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I’m not using anything related to git so I don’t know how to provide a link although you can download the translation by pressing the “Submitted file merged with development changes” link below and this is the page where the translation is uploaded and submitted - Module Translation: gnome-software

The “Compare to: [2]” option also shows the difference between the translation revisions, but I don’t think it has anything useful related to the git submission process.

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I’m selecting the “Submit to repository” action and then press “Submit”, it loads for 5-10 seconds and then it returns that error at the top of the page.

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Do you mind trying again now?

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You folks are heroes! Thank you, it works perfectly now!!
I can now take care of the backlog and hopefully Bulgarian users will be happy to see them one day :blush: