Re: [PATCH v4] documentation: add tutorial for first contribution

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Just a couple typo fixes listed below:


On 2019.04.23 12:34, Emily Shaffer wrote:
[snip]
> +=== Implementation
> +
> +It's probably useful to do at least something besides printing out a string.
> +Let's start by having a look at everything we get.
> +
> +Modify your `cmd_psuh` implementation to dump the args you're passed:
> +
> +----
> +	int i;
> +
> +	...
> +
> +	printf(Q_("Your args (there is %d):\n",
> +		  "Your args (there are %d):\n",
> +		  argc),
> +	       argc);
> +	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
> +		printf("%d: %s\n", i, argv[i]);
> +	}
> +	printf(_("Your current working directory:\n<top-level>%s%s\n"),
> +	       prefix ? "/" : "", prefix ? prefix : "");
> +
> +----
> +
> +Build and try it. As you may expect, there's pretty much just whatever we give
> +on the command line, including the name of our command. (If `prefix` is empty
> +for you, try `cd Documentation/ && ../bin-wrappers/git/ psuh`). That's not so

Looks like you have an errant "/" after "git".


[snip]
> +=== Adding documentation
> +
> +Awesome! You've got a fantastic new command that you're ready to share with the
> +community. But hang on just a minute - this isn't very user-friendly. Run the
> +following:
> +
> +----
> +$ ./bin-wrappers/git help psuh
> +----
> +
> +Your new command is undocumented! Let's fix that.
> +
> +Take a look at `Documentation/git-*.txt`. These are the manpages for the
> +subcommands that Git knows about. You can open these up and take a look to get
> +acquainted with the format, but then go ahead and make a new file
> +`Documentation/git-psuh.txt`. Like with most of the documentation in the Git
> +project, help pages are written with AsciiDoc (see CodingGuidelines, "Writing
> +Documentation" section). Use the following template to fill out your own
> +manpage:
> +
> +// Surprisingly difficult to embed AsciiDoc source within AsciiDoc.
> +[listing]
> +....
> +git-psuh(1)
> +===========
> +
> +NAME
> +----
> +git-psuh - Delight users' typo with a shy horse
> +
> +
> +SYNOPSIS
> +--------
> +[verse]
> +'git-psuh'
> +
> +DESCRIPTION
> +-----------
> +...
> +
> +OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]]
> +------------------
> +...
> +
> +OUTPUT
> +------
> +...
> +
> +
> +GIT
> +---
> +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
> +....
> +
> +The most important pieces of this to note are the file header, underlined by =,
> +the NAME section, and the SYNOPSIS, which would normally contain the grammar if
> +your command took arguments. Try to use well-established manpage headers so your
> +documentation is consistent with other Git and UNIX manpages; this makes life
> +easier for your user, who can skip to the section they know contains the
> +information they need.
> +
> +Now that you've written your manpage, you'll need to build it explicitly. We
> +convert your AsciiDoc to troff which is man-readable like so:
> +
> +----
> +$ make all doc
> +$ man Documentation/git-psuh.1
> +----
> +
> +or
> +
> +----
> +$ make -C Documentation/git-psuh.1

Needs a space after "Documentation/".



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