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Christian Egli 74e0eab0c5 Mention the dotfiles option in the manual
This should have been part of 182acbbb64
when the option was first added.

This commit basically just copies the help text from stow.in into the
texinfo manual.
2020-05-27 17:51:37 +02:00
Adam Spiers 9fd3624a75 HOWTO-RELEASE: explicitly push to master
This avoids errors like

    fatal: You are pushing to remote 'savannah', which is not the upstream of
    your current branch 'master', without telling me what to push
    to update which remote branch.
2019-07-28 14:54:36 +01:00
Adam Spiers c84a3b0f25 HOWTO-RELEASE: fix final step of bumping to next release version 2019-07-28 14:52:16 +01:00
Adam Spiers 71b9606ba4 HOWTO-RELEASE: explain how to confirm PAUSE acceptance of upload 2019-07-28 13:58:00 +01:00
Adam Spiers 7fae30ecce HOWTO-RELEASE: do ./Build dist earlier
docker builds break ./Build dist, so do it earlier.
2019-07-28 13:28:46 +01:00
Adam Spiers 5602166a57 Make sure release process starts from a clean slate 2019-07-28 13:15:11 +01:00
Adam Spiers 3aa30ae1aa fix cross-references under --no-folding section of manual
Under emacs, this was previously rendered as

    '--no-folding'

         This disables any further *note tree folding:: or *note tree
         refolding::.  If a new subdirectory is encountered whilst stowing a

which looks awkward.  Similarly under info(1):

    '--no-folding'

         This disables any further *note tree folding:: or *note tree
         refolding::.  If a new subdirectory is encountered whilst stowing a

The new way is undesirably repetitive, but at least grammatically
correct.  I don't think there's a better solution with texinfo :-/
2019-07-28 13:04:17 +01:00
Adam Spiers ed2091e9a5 HOWTO-RELEASE: add suggested commands for updating home page 2019-07-28 13:04:17 +01:00
Adam Spiers 80d1472253 HOWTO-RELEASE: update news section of online home page 2019-07-16 19:24:19 +01:00
Adam Spiers cfb3ff7eff HOWTO-RELEASE: update online docs *after* uploading release
It doesn't make sense to have docs online relating to a release which
isn't yet available; it's less confusing to have a small time window
in which the online docs are out of date.
2019-07-16 19:21:04 +01:00
Adam Spiers 4a9121eec9 Bump version to 2.3.1 for development of next release 2019-06-29 13:40:55 +01:00
Adam Spiers 94175829b9 Make NEWS export to text better
Run org-convert-to-odd-levels on NEWS and set local variables so
that sections can easily be exported for release announcements.
2019-06-29 01:30:33 +01:00
Adam Spiers 872ec96350 HOWTO-RELEASE: Fix cvs commit command for docs 2019-06-29 00:55:51 +01:00
Adam Spiers cef930852c HOWTO-RELEASE: Fix git tag command 2019-06-29 00:36:00 +01:00
Adam Spiers 27796720d5 Upgrade to GPL v3 and add headers to files (#44)
Following advice from maintainers@gnu.org, bring Stow in line with
other GNU projects by upgrading it from GPL v2 to v3

  https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Licensing-of-GNU-Packages.html#Licensing-of-GNU-Packages

as obtained in plain text and texinfo formats from

  https://www.gnu.org/licenses/

and adding appropriate headers:

  https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Code.html#License-Notices-for-Code

Fixes #44: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/44
2019-06-27 20:37:40 +01:00
Adam Spiers c2a399985a remove trailing whitespace from lines 2019-06-27 13:54:36 +01:00
Adam Spiers 9c402559d2 Include the preamble in online versions of the manual
This is more inline with the suggestion in the texinfo manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/_0040top-Command.html

and also the preamble is useful in all cases.
2019-06-26 13:46:37 +01:00
Adam Spiers b4cb6e775a Add Guillaume and myself to the list of @authors 2019-06-26 13:46:37 +01:00
Adam Spiers e647c53af1 Add some polish to the release process 2019-06-25 20:05:47 +01:00
Charles LeDoux dc42c34107 Add function to expand ~ in .stowrc files (#14)
Add a new expand_tilde() function that performs tilde expansion of
strings, and corresponding unit tests:

    * A ~ at the beginning of a path is expanded to the user's home
      directory.
    * Literal '~' can be provided with '\~'

Combine this with expand_environment() in a new expand_filepath()
function which applies all (both) required expansion functions to a
string, and use that in get_config_file_options() to expand .stowrc
options.

Add more tests to check that tilde expanded in correct places, i.e.:

    * expanded for --target and --dir
    * not expanded for --ignore, --defer, or --override

Update documentation on stowrc files according to this functionality
change.

Fixes #14: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/14
2019-06-25 19:38:43 +01:00
Adam Spiers c3cbdeb812 Synchronise --verbose documentation
The man page was updated with regard to higher --verbose levels but
not the info manual, so fix that.
2019-06-25 17:41:17 +01:00
Adam Spiers 72ef83cebd Fix old descriptions of Stow (#22)
De-emphasise the package management aspects, since these days
almost everyone prefers to use modern package managers such as
rpm / dpkg / Nix for (system-wide) package management.

Also include more popular modern use cases for Stow such as management
of dotfiles and software compiled in the user's $HOME directory.

Fixes #22: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/22
2019-06-25 16:52:33 +01:00
Adam Spiers dd42b09a5b avoid "regex" abbreviation for consistency 2018-02-11 17:55:40 +00:00
Adam Spiers c84de4eb14 fix erroneous glob examples in --ignore documentation
Many thanks to Daniel Shahaf for noticing this.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2017-07/msg00000.html
2018-02-11 17:55:31 +00:00
Adam Spiers e7e6c7fbde update the introductory text to clarify Stow's common usage
Thanks to Jean Louis for some suggestions on this.
2018-02-11 11:47:39 +00:00
Adam Spiers ea11f266a5 fix typo in "Deleting Packages" chapter
Thanks to Hongyi Zhao for spotting this error and reporting it.
2017-03-04 14:29:06 +00:00
Adam Spiers b160a1c807 clarify that ~/.stowrc args don't get processed by a shell
Address confusion reported here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2016-08/msg00000.html
2016-12-18 23:17:19 +00:00
Adam Spiers 5a8d275c47 replace a "you" typo with better text
The contents are prepended to the arguments; they still come after the
stow executable.
2016-12-18 23:14:39 +00:00
Adam Spiers fd10706ce3 HOWTO-RELEASE: use Docker to test before releasing
Charles LeDoux did some awesome work providing this Docker environment
which can test across multiple Perl versions using perlbrew, so it
would be crazy not to use it.
2016-11-20 22:57:39 +00:00
Adam Spiers 98a8f7e3e7 use PAUSE upload for final validation step of release 2016-11-20 22:50:22 +00:00
Adam Spiers a9f79c6a5b make sure release tags are also pushed to GitHub 2016-11-20 22:50:22 +00:00
Adam Spiers 17bbfb05c6 further refine the release process
Let's try a new approach where we increment the version number
immediately after publishing a release, not just before.

This will mean that anyone who builds from git gets a version of Stow
which is higher than the release which was just cut, and this could
provide valuable debugging hints in case a bug report does not clearly
state whether the problem arose with the latest release or with a build
from git.
2016-11-20 22:50:22 +00:00
Adam Spiers 08bff6df00 whitespace cleanups 2016-11-20 22:20:46 +00:00
Adam Spiers 0bc06e58e1 HOWTO-RELEASE: add a reminder to update THANKS
Make sure the maintainer always gives credit to contributors :-)
2016-11-20 22:07:47 +00:00
Adam Spiers d82b6aa1a8 HOWTO-RELEASE: remove body indent 2015-11-09 11:05:20 +00:00
Adam Spiers ee118fb616 HOWTO-RELEASE: add link to official GNU maintainers guide 2015-11-09 11:05:14 +00:00
Adam Spiers 2119e75d2b HOWTO-RELEASE: encourage use of SemVer 2015-11-09 10:13:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers 0a54a6bbab HOWTO-RELEASE: encourage GPG-signing of release tags 2015-11-09 10:11:59 +00:00
Adam Spiers 7faa1d86dc HOWTO-RELEASE: use gnulib for gendocs instead of texinfo
These days it seems that gendocs can be done entirely from
the templates in gnulib, rather than requiring the texinfo
repository.
2015-11-09 10:10:36 +00:00
Adam Spiers f1b67d2432 HOWTO-RELEASE: include automake --add-missing
This is necessary since automake files were removed from the repository
recently.
2015-11-09 09:28:51 +00:00
Adam Spiers 29a8b5d4e5 Add more index entries to the manual. 2015-11-09 09:03:49 +00:00
Adam Spiers e255b27976 Fix a typo in the docs. 2015-11-09 09:03:42 +00:00
Adam Spiers db784f0a5f Fix typo in manual. 2012-02-19 01:42:10 +00:00
Adam Spiers 037ce9ee8a Add a few more items to index. 2012-02-19 01:42:04 +00:00
Adam Spiers 50d28a4306 Add boilerplate commit message for web docs update. 2012-02-18 20:43:20 +00:00
Adam Spiers ed12c787df Add --no-folding option. 2012-02-18 20:33:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers 17d3586e84 Remove -a option for safety reasons (but keep --adopt). 2012-02-18 20:33:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers 1af824908d Last known bug was fixed a long time ago :-) 2012-02-18 20:33:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers 52d7e2f384 Update structure of manual to match recommended texinfo structure.
TOC now appears after title page.
Copying information is no longer duplicated.
2012-02-18 20:33:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers 934ff5e273 Fix various formatting issues in the manual. 2012-02-18 20:20:15 +00:00