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| author | Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-01-03 11:21:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl> | 2023-01-10 22:30:41 +0100 |
| commit | fefa3a49ce67998923af0b6c927cb9cea1f4ceaa (patch) | |
| tree | 4bc679c903157c3bb7ea3763f0fe51c1ef663464 /doc/manual | |
| parent | fd2af69e600fdf0e06c996df607d560b222f7a38 (diff) | |
doc/manual: Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md b/doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md index cd3788efc..fe24294f8 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md @@ -250,16 +250,19 @@ The installer now supports a `--tarball-url-prefix` flag which _may_ have solved this need? --> -### Checking the manual links +### Checking links in the manual -The build checks for broken internal links, but this happens late in the process, -so `nix build .` is not suitable for iterating. To check the manual incrementally, run: +The build checks for broken internal links. +This happens late in the process, so `nix build` is not suitable for iterating. +To build the manual incrementally, run: ```console make html -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES ``` -When iterating on the makefile, run: +In order to reflect changes to the [Makefile], clear all generated files before re-building: + +[Makefile]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/doc/manual/local.mk ```console rm $(git ls-files doc/manual/ -o | grep -F '.md') && rmdir doc/manual/src/command-ref/new-cli && make html -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES @@ -267,4 +270,7 @@ rm $(git ls-files doc/manual/ -o | grep -F '.md') && rmdir doc/manual/src/comman If a broken link occurs in a snippet that was inserted into multiple generated files in different directories, use `@docroot@` to reference the `doc/manual/src` directory. -`mdbook-linkcheck` does not implement fragment checking yet. +[`mdbook-linkcheck`] does not implement checking [URI fragments] yet. + +[`mdbook-linkcheck`]: https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/mdbook-linkcheck +[URI fragments]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_fragment |