---
title: empty-source
description: "A text of the source is empty."
---

# `empty-source`

**Warning** · A text of the source is empty.

`git8n check` reports this rule as a warning. It fails only past `--max-warnings`.

## Why it matters

A translator has nothing to translate, and every language gets an empty text.

## Invalid

`locales/en/common.json`

```json
{
  "title": ""
}
```

`locales/fr/common.json`

```json
{
  "title": "Bonjour"
}
```

```text
$ git8n check --source en
locales/en/common.json
  warning  common:title is empty in the source.  empty-source

Read more:
  empty-source  https://git8n.sakuga.dev/docs/reference/rules/empty-source.html

0 errors, 1 warning in 2 files (en → fr, 1 key).
```

## Valid

`locales/en/common.json`

```json
{
  "title": "Hello"
}
```

`locales/fr/common.json`

```json
{
  "title": "Bonjour"
}
```

```text
$ git8n check --source en
0 errors, 0 warnings in 2 files (en → fr, 1 key).
```

## What to do

Write the text of the source, or delete the key.

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