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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] doc lint: lint and fix missing "GIT" end sections
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:32:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmzmnd5h.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YF2/xPMvwhm+OOVz@coredump.intra.peff.net>


On Fri, Mar 26 2021, Jeff King wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:36:50AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> Lint for and fix the three manual pages that were missing the standard
>> "Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite" end section.
>
> This is a definite improvement. Two thoughts come to mind, though:
>
>   1. Do we need a separate script for this? Couldn't the existing linter
>      script check this while it is reading all of the files (it knows
>      which ones are supposed to be manpages because they are annotated
>      with the --section option).

It's not needed, but I think it's better, one is iterating a
line-at-time, one slurps all lines, they have different sorts of error
reporting (one quotes the whole line).

So I thought about joining them into one, and also make them and
check-non-portable-shell.pl some general lint-line-ish checker.

Obviously all of that fits in one script, but I think for something like
this that's a one-off script with global variables it's much harder to
follow when a large part of your script is some if/else or
keeping/resetting of state simply to work around the script doing two
things instead of one.

I mean, the whole scaffolding is basically:

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    sub report { ... }
    my $code = 0;
    while (<>) {
        ...
    }
    exit $code;

We'd spend more lines effort trying to consolidate them than just
copying that around.

> That would be more efficient, and probably a little less code.

This thing takes ~5ms to run on my (and most) boxes, by comparison the
whole asciidoc dance takes some eons...

>   2. Instead of linting, could we just be automatically sticking this
>      boilerplate in as part of the build (either through some asciidoc
>      magic, or even just a plain old "cat")? Even better than being
>      reminded that you forgot something is making it impossible to
>      forget it in the first place.

Whenever I take an aborted effort at the docs I end up with some aborted
effort to migrte them to texinfo, so I'm sympathetic to the automatic
generation part of this.

But for something trivial like this I think there's more value in having
a 1=1 match between WYS and WYG, not adding magic blurbs by the build
system for something so trivial.

That being said I wouldn't mind it much, just seemed like an obvious
thing to add a lint for as it stands now...


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-26 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26 10:36 [PATCH 0/5] small doc make and lint fixes Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] Documentation/Makefile: make $(wildcard howto/*.txt) a var Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-28  6:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 2/5] Documentation/Makefile: make $(wildcard <doc deps>) " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-28  6:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 3/5] doc lint: Perl "strict" and "warnings" in lint-gitlink.perl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-28  6:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 4/5] doc lint: fix bugs in, simplify and improve lint script Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-26 11:00   ` Jeff King
2021-03-28  1:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 12:48   ` Philip Oakley
2021-03-28  1:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-28  6:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 10:36 ` [PATCH 5/5] doc lint: lint and fix missing "GIT" end sections Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-26 11:04   ` Jeff King
2021-03-26 15:32     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2021-03-27  9:50       ` Jeff King
2021-03-28  6:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-28 17:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-09 11:49       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-10  4:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26 11:06 ` [PATCH 0/5] small doc make and lint fixes Jeff King
2021-03-26 15:18   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-27  9:48     ` Jeff King
2021-04-09 15:02 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] Documentation/Makefile: make $(wildcard howto/*.txt) a var Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/Makefile: make doc.dep dependencies a variable again Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] doc lint: Perl "strict" and "warnings" in lint-gitlink.perl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] doc lint: fix bugs in, simplify and improve lint script Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] doc lint: lint and fix missing "GIT" end sections Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] doc lint: lint relative section order Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-09 15:02   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] docs: fix linting issues due to incorrect " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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