[m-rev.] for post-commit review: generate the invocation chapter automatically
Julien Fischer
jfischer at opturion.com
Mon Jul 7 11:52:12 AEST 2025
On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 at 03:18, Zoltan Somogyi <zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com> wrote:
> The reason why I am committing it before review, besides wanting
> to work on this more later today, is that any problems are likely to be
> easy to fix, and in fact easier than with the old setup.
>
> Note that the diff does not contain the diff to doc/user_guide.texi.
> The reason is twofold: including it would have pushed even the
> compressed diff well over 100 Kb in size, and the diff is far less
> readable than the new version that you can easily see after a git pull.
>
> Note also that I don't expect any reviewer to go through every single
> option and check its documentation in the old user guide vs the new,
> because I know from experience that this task would take several hours,
> at least. What you may wish to do instead, which is almost as good, is
> to just find some options in the old user guide whose documentation seems
> complicated and hard-to-replicate automatically, and check a few of those.
> A dozen or two spotchecks of the harder options are almost as likely
> to find any problems as a tedious full comparison, since problems are
> unlikely to lurk in the options with trivial documentation.
I haven't reviewed this in detail yet, but have pushed a few small fixes.
(Note I haven't updated the user's guide.)
Julien.
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