Re: staging is a safety net, not a trampoline

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; "Keith OHara" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: staging is a safety net, not a trampoline


hello,

On 7 January 2012 11:42, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith OHara" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 6:16 AM
> Subject: Re: staging is a safety net, not a trampoline
>
>
> > Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes:
> >
> > > But please consider testing your patches a bit more before sending
> > > them in.
> >
> > Sorry that was probably me.
> > I thought I was safe after testing with doc-section.sh, but these scripts
> > do not report the warnings from lilypond snippets in the docs.
> > I've started `touch Documentation/*te??; make doc` but will leave
> > documentation to the experts from now on.
>
>
>
> FWIW make doc is now more useful for testing doc changes than it used to 
> be.
> If you can run make doc successfully, edit your document and then repeat
> make doc, it will usually only remake the stuff that's been changed - with
> no need to touch any files. This is because of the work Julien did late
> last year.

If that really is true (hooray) then we ought to update

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor-big-page.html#documentation-editor_0027s-edit_002fcompile-cycle


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James


Agreed.  Please test my assertion - make doc, edit the CG section shown and 
remake doc - that would make a fair test.

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Phil Holmes