Git development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Julia Evans via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,  Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: don't require a SYNOPSIS in section 7
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:03:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7bk0vv38.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv77kvwgr.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:33:24 -0700")

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

> diff --git c/Documentation/lint-man-section-order.perl w/Documentation/lint-man-section-order.perl
> index 02408a0062..ce60c34809 100755
> --- c/Documentation/lint-man-section-order.perl
> +++ w/Documentation/lint-man-section-order.perl
> @@ -55,8 +55,23 @@ sub report {
>  
>  my $last_was_section;
>  my @actual_order;
> +my $section_tweak_done;
>  while (my $line = <>) {
>  	chomp $line;
> +
> +	if (!$section_tweak_done) {
> +		# assume the first line is formatted like 'gitglossary(7)'
> +		my $firstline = <>;

Ah, this was obviously buggy.  Not <>, but we should use $line here.

> +		$firstline =~ m/\((\d)\)/;
> +		my $man_section_number = $1;
> +
> +		if ($man_section_number == "7") {
> +			# section 7 usually do not have SYNOPSIS
> +			$SECTIONS{SYNOPSIS}{required} = 0;
> +		}
> +		$section_tweak_done = 1;
> +	}
> +
>  	if ($line =~ $SECTION_RX) {
>  		push @actual_order => $line;
>  		$last_was_section = 1;

  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-02 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-02 16:07 [PATCH] doc: don't require a SYNOPSIS in section 7 Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-02 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-02 18:03   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-10-02 18:10     ` Julia Evans
2026-10-02 18:20 ` Julia Evans
2026-10-02 21:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-03  7:33     ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-10-03 11:37       ` Julia Evans
2026-10-03 12:55         ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-10-03 13:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-04 13:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-06 11:17     ` Julia Evans
2026-10-06 16:07       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-06 16:54 ` [PATCH v3] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-06 20:40   ` Junio C Hamano

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=xmqq7bk0vv38.fsf@gitster.g \
    --to=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=gitgitgadget@gmail.com \
    --cc=julia@jvns.ca \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox