From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Victoria Dye" <vdye@github.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cmd-list.perl: fix identifying man sections
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:07:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yy4uDW9YjpleFUHW@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220923070334.1970213-1-martin.agren@gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 09:03:34AM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:
> This makes our git(1) manpage look as follows:
>
> Main porcelain commands
> git-add(git)
> Add file contents to the index.
>
> [...]
>
> gitk(git)
> The Git repository browser.
>
> scalar(scalar)
> A tool for managing large Git repositories.
Good catch. The patch looks good (I was going to suggest ?:, but I see
Ævar beat me to it).
I wondered if we might have caught this in a more automatic way. The
output of:
cd Documentation
./doc-diff cc75e556a9^ cc75e556a9
makes the problem apparent, but I don't fault reviewers for not running
it. I rarely remember to do so. And in general you need a human looking
at doc-diff output to know if it was the intended change or not.
I wondered if it might be worth running
./doc-diff v2.37.0 v2.38.0-rc1
near a release to scan over all of the changes. But the diff is over
8000 lines, and I admit my eyes glazed over before I got to the
problematic hunks (even though I knew I was looking for them!). You can
limit it a bit with --diff-filter=a, which drops new entries (which
can't have regressed!), but it's still over 4000 lines.
So I dunno. I think doc-diff is a potentially useful tool, but I'm not
sure how to point the human attention at the right spot to find a bug.
Maybe "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is our best bet
here. After all, it did find this bug before the release. :)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-23 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-23 7:03 [PATCH] cmd-list.perl: fix identifying man sections Martin Ågren
2022-09-23 7:38 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-23 8:07 ` [PATCH v2] " Martin Ågren
2022-09-23 8:37 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-23 11:42 ` Martin Ågren
2022-09-23 17:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-23 22:07 ` Jeff King [this message]
2022-09-26 7:16 ` [PATCH] " Martin Ågren
2022-09-26 17:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-26 13:35 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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