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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+Checking for needed translation updates
+=======================================
+
+This script helps track the translation status of the documentation in
+different locales, i.e., whether the documentation is up-to-date with
+the English counterpart.
+
+How it works
+------------
+
+It uses ``git log`` command to track the latest English commit from the
+translation commit (order by author date) and the latest English commits
+from HEAD. If any differences occur, the file is considered as out-of-date,
+then commits that need to be updated will be collected and reported.
+
+Features implemented
+
+-  check all files in a certain locale
+-  check a single file or a set of files
+-  provide options to change output format
+-  track the translation status of files that have no translation
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+::
+
+   ./scripts/checktransupdate.py --help
+
+Please refer to the output of argument parser for usage details.
+
+Samples
+
+-  ``./scripts/checktransupdate.py -l zh_CN``
+   This will print all the files that need to be updated in the zh_CN locale.
+-  ``./scripts/checktransupdate.py Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst``
+   This will only print the status of the specified file.
+
+Then the output is something like:
+
+::
+
+    Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst
+    No translation in the locale of zh_CN
+
+    Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
+    commit 42fb9cfd5b18 ("Documentation: dev-tools: Add link to RV docs")
+    1 commits needs resolving in total
+
+Features to be implemented
+
+- files can be a folder instead of only a file