Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] travis-ci: build documentation

On 03 May 2016, at 17:43, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Lars Schneider [off-list ref] writes:

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On 02 May 2016, at 22:45, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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larsxschneider@gmail.com writes:

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+set -e
+
+LINKS=$(grep --recursive --only-matching --no-filename --perl-regexp \
+    '(?<=linkgit:).*?(?=\[\d+\])' Documentation/* \
+    | sort -u \
+)
+
+for LINK in $LINKS; do
+    echo "Checking linkgit:$LINK..."
+    test -s Documentation/$LINK.txt
+done

Please separate the above link check out of this step and do so
separately after the move of test body to a separate script
settles.

OK. I also wonder if the link check should rather go to the 
"check-docs" Makefile target?

That sounds like a good direction.

Which in turn means that people on all platforms are welcome to run
it, which in turn means that the script must be even more portable,
with avoiding GNUism and bash-isms etc.

OK. I am not that experienced with shell scripting and therefore it
is hard for me to distinguish between the different shell features.
Do you know/can you recommend the most basic shell to test/work 
with? A quick Google search told me that "dash" from Ubuntu seems
to be a good baseline as it aims to support pretty much only POSIX [1].

Thanks,
Lars

[1] http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-binbash-vs-bindash-vs-binshshell/