From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
To: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] documentation: add tutorial for first contribution
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 17:57:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190502005757.GB99569@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190430185923.GA26779@google.com>
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:59:23AM -0700, Josh Steadmon wrote:
> Just a couple typo fixes listed below:
>
Thanks for the review, Josh.
I'll hold these fixes locally until I either get something more
significant to fix or Junio asks for them before a merge to next, to
reduce spam to the list.
- Emily
>
> On 2019.04.23 12:34, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> [snip]
> > +=== Implementation
> > +
> > +It's probably useful to do at least something besides printing out a string.
> > +Let's start by having a look at everything we get.
> > +
> > +Modify your `cmd_psuh` implementation to dump the args you're passed:
> > +
> > +----
> > + int i;
> > +
> > + ...
> > +
> > + printf(Q_("Your args (there is %d):\n",
> > + "Your args (there are %d):\n",
> > + argc),
> > + argc);
> > + for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
> > + printf("%d: %s\n", i, argv[i]);
> > + }
> > + printf(_("Your current working directory:\n<top-level>%s%s\n"),
> > + prefix ? "/" : "", prefix ? prefix : "");
> > +
> > +----
> > +
> > +Build and try it. As you may expect, there's pretty much just whatever we give
> > +on the command line, including the name of our command. (If `prefix` is empty
> > +for you, try `cd Documentation/ && ../bin-wrappers/git/ psuh`). That's not so
>
> Looks like you have an errant "/" after "git".
Right you are. Thanks.
>
>
> [snip]
> > +=== Adding documentation
> > +
> > +Awesome! You've got a fantastic new command that you're ready to share with the
> > +community. But hang on just a minute - this isn't very user-friendly. Run the
> > +following:
> > +
> > +----
> > +$ ./bin-wrappers/git help psuh
> > +----
> > +
> > +Your new command is undocumented! Let's fix that.
> > +
> > +Take a look at `Documentation/git-*.txt`. These are the manpages for the
> > +subcommands that Git knows about. You can open these up and take a look to get
> > +acquainted with the format, but then go ahead and make a new file
> > +`Documentation/git-psuh.txt`. Like with most of the documentation in the Git
> > +project, help pages are written with AsciiDoc (see CodingGuidelines, "Writing
> > +Documentation" section). Use the following template to fill out your own
> > +manpage:
> > +
> > +// Surprisingly difficult to embed AsciiDoc source within AsciiDoc.
> > +[listing]
> > +....
> > +git-psuh(1)
> > +===========
> > +
> > +NAME
> > +----
> > +git-psuh - Delight users' typo with a shy horse
> > +
> > +
> > +SYNOPSIS
> > +--------
> > +[verse]
> > +'git-psuh'
> > +
> > +DESCRIPTION
> > +-----------
> > +...
> > +
> > +OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]]
> > +------------------
> > +...
> > +
> > +OUTPUT
> > +------
> > +...
> > +
> > +
> > +GIT
> > +---
> > +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
> > +....
> > +
> > +The most important pieces of this to note are the file header, underlined by =,
> > +the NAME section, and the SYNOPSIS, which would normally contain the grammar if
> > +your command took arguments. Try to use well-established manpage headers so your
> > +documentation is consistent with other Git and UNIX manpages; this makes life
> > +easier for your user, who can skip to the section they know contains the
> > +information they need.
> > +
> > +Now that you've written your manpage, you'll need to build it explicitly. We
> > +convert your AsciiDoc to troff which is man-readable like so:
> > +
> > +----
> > +$ make all doc
> > +$ man Documentation/git-psuh.1
> > +----
> > +
> > +or
> > +
> > +----
> > +$ make -C Documentation/git-psuh.1
>
> Needs a space after "Documentation/".
Done. Thanks much.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-02 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-11 18:32 [PATCH 0/1] documentation: add lab for first contribution Emily Shaffer via GitGitGadget
2019-04-11 18:32 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Emily Shaffer via GitGitGadget
2019-04-12 3:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-12 22:03 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-04-13 5:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-15 17:26 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-04-11 21:03 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Josh Steadmon
2019-04-12 2:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-12 22:58 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-04-16 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 " Emily Shaffer via GitGitGadget
2019-04-16 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Emily Shaffer via GitGitGadget
2019-04-17 5:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-17 8:07 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-04-18 0:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-17 23:16 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-04-16 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Emily Shaffer
2019-04-19 16:57 ` [PATCH v3] " Emily Shaffer
2019-04-21 10:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-22 22:27 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-04-23 19:34 ` [PATCH v4] documentation: add tutorial " Emily Shaffer
2019-04-30 18:59 ` Josh Steadmon
2019-05-02 0:57 ` Emily Shaffer [this message]
2019-05-03 2:11 ` Phil Hord
2019-05-07 19:05 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-05-06 22:28 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-05-07 19:59 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-05-07 20:32 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-05-08 2:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-07 21:30 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] documentation: add lab " Emily Shaffer
2019-05-07 21:30 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] documentation: add tutorial " Emily Shaffer
2019-05-07 23:25 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-05-08 3:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 18:58 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-05-08 19:53 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-05-07 21:30 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] documentation: add anchors to MyFirstContribution Emily Shaffer
2019-05-08 3:30 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] documentation: add lab for first contribution Junio C Hamano
2019-05-17 19:03 ` [PATCH v6 0/2] documentation: add tutorial " Emily Shaffer
2019-05-17 19:07 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] " Emily Shaffer
2019-05-26 7:48 ` Christian Couder
2019-05-29 20:09 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-18 16:40 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-10-18 22:54 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-05-17 19:07 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] documentation: add anchors to MyFirstContribution Emily Shaffer
2019-05-29 20:18 ` [PATCH] doc: add some nit fixes " Emily Shaffer
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