Translation sync failed for PR #656 (zh-cn) #1028

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1. mmcky

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2. mmcky commented on Aug 20, 2026

   

   mmcky

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   Route corrected — use the CLI, not \translate-resync

   Per the 2026-08-20 ruling on action-translation#276, \translate-resync is no longer the documented recovery for a failed sync.

   Status. hoist_failure.md on lecture-python.zh-cn is behind: its state records source-sha: dd9fd019 against a source last-touch of a7aafd5b (this PR).

   Route. translate forward -f hoist_failure.md from a source clone pulled to origin/main. forward reads the source off the local filesystem, so it cannot exhibit #276's stale-snapshot defect, and it anchors its parity check to current main rather than to the merge-time snapshot.

   Two notes. This issue is the one case in the estate whose error is not a structural-parity failure — it reads Update mode requires oldEnglish, newEnglish, and currentTranslation, which looks transient rather than deterministic, so forward has a fair chance of simply succeeding. And under the ruling's precondition this PR is one of only three in the backlog that would have been safe to resync anyway: git rev-list --count a7aafd5b..origin/main -- lectures/hoist_failure.md is 0.

   Caveat before running: the target's state file dates from a 2025-era bootstrap, so verify what forward proposes rather than merging on the verdict alone.
3. mmcky commented on Aug 20, 2026

   

   mmcky

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   Recovered and closing. hoist_failure.md is resynced to source a7aafd5b on lecture-python.zh-cn@main as of zh-cn#260 (merged 2026-08-20).

   Delivered with translate forward -f at engine v0.26.0, not \translate-resync, per the ruling on action-translation#276.

   This was the one failure in the estate's backlog whose error was not a structural parity check — it read Update mode requires oldEnglish, newEnglish, and currentTranslation, which looked transient, and it was: forward succeeded on the second attempt.

   Verified: 46/46 directives, 23/23 code cells, 52/52 headings, 0 python syntax errors across all 23 cells, no captions or axis labels byte-identical to source, and the edition's i18n font block preserved through the whole-file regeneration.
4. mmcky

   closed this as completedon Aug 20, 2026