We already advise people to make sure their documentation formats correctly. Let's point them at the doc-diff script, which can help with that. Let's also put a brief note in the script about its purpose, since that otherwise can only be found in the original commit message. Along with the existing -h/usage text, that's hopefully enough for developers to make use of it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- Just a finishing touch on the jk/diff-rendered-docs topic. Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +++- Documentation/doc-diff | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b44fd51f27..ec8b205145 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ GitHub-Travis CI hints section for details. Do not forget to update the documentation to describe the updated behavior and make sure that the resulting documentation set formats -well. It is currently a liberal mixture of US and UK English norms for +well (try the Documentation/doc-diff script). + +We currently have a liberal mixture of US and UK English norms for spelling and grammar, which is somewhat unfortunate. A huge patch that touches the files all over the place only to correct the inconsistency is not welcome, though. Potential clashes with other changes that can diff --git a/Documentation/doc-diff b/Documentation/doc-diff index f483fe427c..6e285e648c 100755 --- a/Documentation/doc-diff +++ b/Documentation/doc-diff @@ -1,4 +1,12 @@ #!/bin/sh +# +# Build two documentation trees and diff the resulting formatted output. +# Compared to a source diff, this can reveal mistakes in the formatting. +# For example: +# +# ./doc-diff origin/master HEAD +# +# would show the differences introduced by a branch based on master. OPTIONS_SPEC="\ doc-diff [options] <from> <to> [-- <diff-options>] -- 2.19.0.rc0.398.g138a08f6f6
