Re: [PATCH 3/3] git.txt: add list of guides

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 2, 2020, 22:05 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqv9i0wvoz.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsgd4rad8.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> "Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
>>
>> Not all guides are mentioned in the 'git(1)' documentation,
>> which makes the missing ones somewhat hard to find.
>>
>> Add a list of the guides to git(1).
>>
>> Tweak `Documentation/cmd-list.perl` so that it also generates
>> a file `cmds-guide.txt` which gets included in git.txt.
>
> Who cleans this?  Do we need a change to Makefile?

A band-aid patch would look like this, BUT.

    diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
    index 39f6fc8de7..616449da88 100644
    --- a/Documentation/Makefile
    +++ b/Documentation/Makefile
    @@ -295,6 +295,7 @@ cmds_txt = cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.txt \
            cmds-plumbingmanipulators.txt \
            cmds-synchingrepositories.txt \
            cmds-synchelpers.txt \
    +       cmds-guide.txt \
            cmds-purehelpers.txt \
            cmds-foreignscminterface.txt

I think with a bit more work, we can be at a lot better place. How about something along the following line (untested)?

 Documentation/Makefile      |  3 ++-
 Documentation/cmd-list.perl | 21 ++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 39f6fc8de7..80d1908a44 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -295,6 +295,7 @@ cmds_txt = cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.txt \
 	cmds-plumbingmanipulators.txt \
 	cmds-synchingrepositories.txt \
 	cmds-synchelpers.txt \
+	cmds-guide.txt \
 	cmds-purehelpers.txt \
 	cmds-foreignscminterface.txt
 
@@ -302,7 +303,7 @@ $(cmds_txt): cmd-list.made
 
 cmd-list.made: cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT)
 	$(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ && \
-	$(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(QUIET_STDERR) && \
+	$(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(cmds_txt) $(QUIET_STDERR) && \
 	date >$@
 
 mergetools_txt = mergetools-diff.txt mergetools-merge.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl
index 99f01a0910..af5da45d28 100755
--- a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl
+++ b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl
@@ -43,12 +43,15 @@ sub format_one {
 	}
 }
 
-while (<>) {
+my ($input, @categories) = @ARGV;
+
+open IN, "<$input";
+while (<IN>) {
 	last if /^### command list/;
 }
 
 my %cmds = ();
-for (sort <>) {
+for (sort <IN>) {
 	next if /^#/;
 
 	chomp;
@@ -56,18 +59,10 @@ sub format_one {
 	$attr = '' unless defined $attr;
 	push @{$cmds{$cat}}, [$name, " $attr "];
 }
+close IN;
 
-for my $cat (qw(ancillaryinterrogators
-		ancillarymanipulators
-		mainporcelain
-		plumbinginterrogators
-		plumbingmanipulators
-		synchingrepositories
-		foreignscminterface
-		purehelpers
-		synchelpers
-		guide)) {
-	my $out = "cmds-$cat.txt";
+for my $out (@categories) {
+	my ($cat) = $out =~ /^cmds-(.*)\.txt$/;
 	open O, '>', "$out+" or die "Cannot open output file $out+";
 	for (@{$cmds{$cat}}) {
 		format_one(\*O, $_);