If you change the "Full name", it will look like another contributor.

[baffclan]

Describe the issue
If you change a "Full name" on account/profile, it will look like another contributor in a PO file.

To Reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Download a tranlation file
   e.g. https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/weblate/languages/ja/
   Files -> Download tranlation
2. Open a tranlation file
   weblate-languages-ja.po
   | # baffclan <baffclan_at_yahoo.co.jp>, 2020.
   | # 日陰のコスモス <baffclan_at_yahoo.co.jp>, 2020, 2021.

Expected behavior

Update to new Full name + email address
| # 日陰のコスモス <baffclan_at_yahoo.co.jp>, 2020, 2021.

The following is unnecessary:
| # baffclan <baffclan_at_yahoo.co.jp>, 2020.

[github-actions]

The issue you've reported needs to be addressed in the translate-toolkit. Please file the issue there, and include links to any relevant specifications about the formats (if applicable).

[nijel]

Right now, name and e-mail have to match to extend existing entries:

https://github.com/translate/translate/blob/5714d6fe0794cbfdbc9d7da216028d9bbf79228e/translate/storage/poheader.py#L397-L451

It could probably do something more clever in case only name changes, but I'm not confident if that is desired in all cases.

[fitojb]

This has implications for trans people: Weblate shouldn’t dead-name them after they transition.

[nijel]

Weblate uses whatever name user configures. The past Git commits will contain previous name and rewriting history is not an option.

For changing the name in the file credits, Weblate would have to look into all translations the user has contributed to and change the name and e-mail accordingly. It's doable, but it could be a dangerous operation. It would be fragile and expensive operation, and it could lead to DoS. So I don't think Weblate should be changing past entries.

[baffclan]

It turns out that this can cause some very difficult problems.
I am withdrawing this issue.

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