Reusing a file between components

[dxdx123]

Describe the issue

There are two components.
Component 1: game_text_cn, source language: Chinese, translating Chinese to English.
Component 2: game_text_en, source language: English (en.xliff from Component 1), translating English to other languages.
The source code repository of Component 2 uses the shared repository weblate://dev/game_text_cn.

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

Reproduction Steps:
Suppose there are 10 source texts in Component 1. When adding and saving a new translation entry (translated to English) in Component 1, Component 2 continues to show only 10 source texts. This issue persists unless the repository is reset in the management interface.

Expected behavior

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How do you run Weblate?

Docker container

Weblate versions

weblate 5.5.5 in docker

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[nijel]

Likely a bug because using the same file in multiple components was not really expected.

You might want to use intermediate language instead and have only one component, see https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/workflows.html#quality-gateway-for-the-source-strings.

[dxdx123]

If I use an intermediate language, do I still need to create two components?

[nijel]

No

[dxdx123]

May I ask, if it is one component, is it recommended to set the intermediate language file to the corresponding en.xliff for masking, or should a separate intermediate language file be specified?

[nijel]

It really depends on you whether you want to use English as an intermediate language directly.

#13302 will make Weblate alert on such setup so that it will be clear that something is configured wrongly.

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