sync with existing resources

[earloc]

As a developer, when I export typealized interfaces, I want to sync keys and values with existing files (instead of overwriting them), to not loose any customizations done in them.

[earloc]

The most significant "problem" currently is, that I do not have a synch-mechanism in place. Currently, The CLI just generates the resource, fast forwarding, overwriting stuff that maybe already has been translated. As code-first is still in a kind of POC phase, atm, so that´s OK for now. But this is definetley a pain point to avoid in the future at all costs.

Diffing those representations is probably not that hard. But the code-first-approach also implies that devs may just rename a property or method, which then would result in a changed key, with little to no chance of accurately being able to diff those with existing resources.

[earloc]

One chance to at least mitigate this a little would be, to reuse existing translations for "New" keys, which would work when no customizations has been made in the generated resx. At least as long as a default value has been specified via structured XML-comments.

Iteration1:
Key1 = "Value 1"

Iteration 2
Key1 renamed to Key2
The exporter could notice, that Key2 still hast the same value than Key1 from a previous export, so reusing this might be ok.

All existing keys should just stay untouched during export ( or at least warn about a drift 🤔, which could be overruled to export with a --force switch).