Thread (10 messages) flat view 10 messages, 4 authors, 2018-08-06

Re: [PATCH] add a script to diff rendered documentation

From: Eric Sunshine <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-03 21:33:31

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 4:52 PM Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:
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[...]
Let's provide a script that builds and installs the manpages
for two commits, renders the results using "man", and diffs
the result. Since this is time-consuming, we'll also do our
best to avoid repeated work, keeping intermediate results
between runs.
[...]
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-diff b/Documentation/doc-diff
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+OPTIONS_SPEC="\
+doc-diff <from> <to> [-- diff options]
Should this be?

    doc-diff [<options>] <from> <to> [-- <diff-options>]
+--
+j      parallel argument to pass to make
+f      force rebuild; do not rely on cached results
+"
Should "j" and "f" be "-j" and "-f", respectively?
+while test $# -gt 0
+do
+       case "$1" in
+       -j)
+               parallel=${1#-j} ;;
+       -f)
+               force=t ;;
+       --)
+               shift; break ;;
+       *)
+               usage ;;
There doesn't seem to a usage() function defined anywhere (and
OPTIONS_SPEC doesn't seem to be used).
+       esac
+       shift
+done
+# We'll do both builds in a single worktree, which lets make reuse
+# results that don't differ between the two trees.
"which lets make reuse"?
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