Weblate commits the repository when getting texts using the translation file API

[derkoe]

Describe the issue

When calling the REST API to get the translations as a file, Weblate commits the current repository. This also leads to a repository push (with the default settings).

See also porscheinformatik/weblate-spring#38

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Open any component
2. Translate a single text for a language
3. Call https://{{weblate-instance}}/api/translations/{{project}}/{{component}}/{{language}}/units/?q=state%3A%3E%3Dtranslated
4. The change from above is committed into the repository

Expected behavior

The change should only be committed after the Age of changes to commit is over.

Screenshots

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Exception traceback

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How do you run Weblate?

Docker container

Weblate versions

• Weblate: 4.13.1
• Django: 4.0.5
• siphashc: 2.1
• translate-toolkit: 3.7.1
• lxml: 4.6.5
• Pillow: 9.1.1
• bleach: 5.0.1
• python-dateutil: 2.8.2
• social-auth-core: 4.3.0
• social-auth-app-django: 5.0.0
• django-crispy-forms: 1.14.0
• oauthlib: 3.2.0
• django-compressor: 4.0
• djangorestframework: 3.13.1
• django-filter: 22.1
• django-appconf: 1.0.5
• user-agents: 2.2.0
• filelock: 3.7.1
• jellyfish: 0.9.0
• openpyxl: 3.0.10
• celery: 5.2.7
• kombu: 5.2.4
• translation-finder: 2.13
• weblate-language-data: 2022.5
• html2text: 2020.1.16
• pycairo: 1.21.0
• pygobject: 3.42.1
• diff-match-patch: 20200713
• requests: 2.28.1
• django-redis: 5.2.0
• hiredis: 2.0.0
• sentry_sdk: 1.6.0
• Cython: 0.29.30
• misaka: 2.1.1
• GitPython: 3.1.27
• borgbackup: 1.2.1
• pyparsing: 3.0.9
• pyahocorasick: 1.4.4
• python-redis-lock: 3.7.0
• charset-normalizer: 2.1.0
• Python: 3.10.5
• Git: 2.30.2
• psycopg2: 2.9.3
• psycopg2-binary: 2.9.3
• phply: 1.2.5
• ruamel.yaml: 0.17.21
• tesserocr: 2.5.2
• boto3: 1.24.21
• zeep: 4.1.0
• aeidon: 1.11
• iniparse: 0.5
• mysqlclient: 2.1.1
• Mercurial: 6.1.4
• git-svn: 2.30.2
• git-review: 2.3.1
• Redis server: 6.2.7
• PostgreSQL server: 11.16
• Database backends: django.db.backends.postgresql
• Cache backends: default:RedisCache, avatar:FileBasedCache
• Email setup: django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend: mailz.porsche.co.at
• OS encoding: filesystem=utf-8, default=utf-8
• Celery: redis://localhost:6379/1, redis://localhost:6379/1, regular
• Platform: Linux 3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)

Weblate deploy checks

System check identified some issues:

INFOS:
?: (weblate.I021) Error collection is not set up, it is highly recommended for production use
        HINT: https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/install.html#collecting-errors

System check identified 1 issue (1 silenced).

Additional context

We use the API to get the translated strings in non-PROD environments to directly reflect the changes in the user interface using https://github.com/porscheinformatik/weblate-spring/. This leads to lots of commits and pushes to our repositories. As we query the API quite frequently nearly every change leads to a push.

[nijel]

This is currently expected - Weblate needs to generate up-to-date file for the download, and it does that by saving it to the repository.

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