---
title: extra-file
description: "A file has no version in the source."
---

# `extra-file`

**Warning** · A file has no version in the source.

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

## Why it matters

The editor reads the files of the source. A file of a language alone is a file that nobody can see or translate there.

## Invalid

`locales/en/common.json`

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

`locales/fr/common.json`

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

`locales/fr/legacy.json`

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

```text
$ git8n check --source en
locales/fr/legacy.json
  warning  legacy.json has no version in en.  extra-file

Read more:
  extra-file  https://git8n.sakuga.dev/docs/reference/rules/extra-file.html

0 errors, 1 warning in 3 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

Delete the file, or add its version to the source.

[All the rules](./index.md) · [The command `check`](../cli.md#check)