From d20c9364efb01a513e14b5eb9195f51b9919c695 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SomberNight <somber.night@protonmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:10:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] contrib/locale/push_locale: more deterministic messages.pot
 (fs order)

Tries to remove differences caused by filesystem-order in the generated .pot file.

The crowdin activity stream is full of events:
```
SomberNight_CI_BOT changed the context of 126 strings
02:42
String	Previous context	New context	File	Time
{} blocks	#: electrum/gui/qt/channel_details.py:256 #: electrum/gui/qt/channel_details.py:257 electrum/gui/qt/network_dialog.py:514 	#: electrum/gui/qt/network_dialog.py:514 electrum/gui/qt/channel_details.py:256 #: electrum/gui/qt/channel_details.py:257 	messages.pot	02:42
[...]
```
^ i.e. on every CI push, the comments containing the file paths and line-numbers were getting mixed up randomly
This is undesirable noise.
---
 .gitignore                    |  1 -
 contrib/locale/push_locale.py | 38 +++++++++++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e33d0cdd0..3ef1b05a9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ env/
 .buildozer
 .buildozer_*/
 bin/
-/app.fil
 .idea
 .mypy_cache
 .vscode
diff --git a/contrib/locale/push_locale.py b/contrib/locale/push_locale.py
index 18eb18f24..da7e84fbe 100755
--- a/contrib/locale/push_locale.py
+++ b/contrib/locale/push_locale.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 # Dependencies:
 # $ sudo apt-get install python3-requests gettext qt6-l10n-tools
 
+import glob
 import os
 import subprocess
 import sys
@@ -44,32 +45,31 @@ except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError) as e1:
     except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError) as e2:
         raise Exception("missing Qt lupdate/convert tools. Maybe try 'apt install qt6-l10n-tools'")
 
-
-cmd = "find electrum -type f -name '*.py' -o -name '*.kv'"
-files = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True)
-
-with open("app.fil", "wb") as f:
-    f.write(files)
-
-print("Found {} files to translate".format(len(files.splitlines())))
-
-# Generate fresh translation template
+# create build dir
 build_dir = os.path.join(locale_dir, "build")
 if not os.path.exists(build_dir):
     os.mkdir(build_dir)
+
+# add .py files
+files_list = glob.glob("electrum/**/*.py", recursive=True)
+files_list = sorted(files_list)  # makes output deterministic across CI runs
+with open(f"{build_dir}/app.fil", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    for item in files_list:
+        f.writelines(item + "\n")
+print("Found {} .py files to translate".format(len(files_list)))
+
+# Generate fresh translation template
 print('Generating template...')
-cmd = ["xgettext", "-s", "--from-code", "UTF-8", "--language", "Python", "--no-wrap", "-f", "app.fil", f"--output={build_dir}/messages_gettext.pot"]
+cmd = ["xgettext", "-s", "--from-code", "UTF-8", "--language", "Python", "--no-wrap", "-f", f"{build_dir}/app.fil", f"--output={build_dir}/messages_gettext.pot"]
 subprocess.check_output(cmd)
 
-
 # add QML translations
-cmd = "find electrum/gui/qml -type f -name '*.qml'"
-files = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True)
-
-with open(f"{build_dir}/qml.lst", "wb") as f:
-    f.write(files)
-
-print("Found {} QML files to translate".format(len(files.splitlines())))
+files_list = glob.glob("electrum/gui/qml/**/*.qml", recursive=True)
+files_list = sorted(files_list)  # makes output deterministic across CI runs
+with open(f"{build_dir}/qml.lst", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    for item in files_list:
+        f.write(item + "\n")
+print("Found {} QML files to translate".format(len(files_list)))
 
 # note: lupdate writes relative paths into its output .ts file, relative to the .ts file itself :/
 cmd = [QT_LUPDATE, f"@{build_dir}/qml.lst","-ts", f"{build_dir}/qml.ts"]