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docs: fix repository-layout when building with breaking changes

Message ID pull.1871.git.1741018310447.gitgitgadget@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series docs: fix repository-layout when building with breaking changes | expand

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Phillip Wood March 3, 2025, 4:11 p.m. UTC
From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>

Since commit 8ccc75c2452 (remote: announce removal of "branches/" and
"remotes/", 2025-01-22) enabling WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES when building git
removes support for reading branches from ".git/branches" and remotes
from ".git/remotes". However those locations are still documented in
gitrepository-layout.adoc even though the build does not support them.

Rectify this by adding a new document attribute
"without-breaking-changes" and use it to make the inclusion of those
sections of the documentation conditional. The name of the attribute is
based on the similar test prerequisite added in c5bc9a7f94a (Makefile:
wire up build option for deprecated features, 2025-01-22).

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
---
    docs: fix repository-layout when building with breaking changes
    
    I copied the name from the test prerequisite as I didn't want to have
    different names for condition used in the tests and documentation. I do
    have some reservations about the naming though as it means we end up
    having to use ifdef::!without-breaking-changes[] or test_expect_success
    !WITHOUT_BREAKING_CHANGES to document and test breaking changes which is
    a double negative.

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1871%2Fphillipwood%2Fbreaking-changes-documentation-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1871/phillipwood/breaking-changes-documentation-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1871

 Documentation/Makefile                  | 4 ++++
 Documentation/gitrepository-layout.adoc | 4 ++++
 Documentation/meson.build               | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)


base-commit: 03944513488db4a81fdb4c21c3b515e4cb260b05

Comments

Junio C Hamano March 3, 2025, 6:18 p.m. UTC | #1
"Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

>     I copied the name from the test prerequisite as I didn't want to have
>     different names for condition used in the tests and documentation. I do
>     have some reservations about the naming though as it means we end up
>     having to use ifdef::!without-breaking-changes[] or test_expect_success
>     !WITHOUT_BREAKING_CHANGES to document and test breaking changes which is
>     a double negative.

It was exactly the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the
change to the Makefile in the patch.  Unless our breaking changes
are all removals, which is not likely to be the case in the longer
term, "without-breaking-changes" would be an invitation for
confusing double negatives.

> +ifdef::without-breaking-changes[]
>  branches::
>  	A deprecated way to store shorthands to be used
>  	to specify a URL to 'git fetch', 'git pull' and 'git push'.
> @@ -164,6 +165,7 @@ branches::
>  	"$GIT_COMMON_DIR/branches" will be used instead.
>  +
>  Git will stop reading remotes from this directory in Git 3.0.
> +endif::without-breaking-changes[]
>  
>  hooks::
>  	Hooks are customization scripts used by various Git
> @@ -231,6 +233,7 @@ info/sparse-checkout::
>  	This file stores sparse checkout patterns.
>  	See also: linkgit:git-read-tree[1].
>  
> +ifdef::without-breaking-changes[]
>  remotes::
>  	Stores shorthands for URL and default refnames for use
>  	when interacting with remote repositories via 'git fetch',
> @@ -241,6 +244,7 @@ remotes::
>  	"$GIT_COMMON_DIR/remotes" will be used instead.
>  +
>  Git will stop reading remotes from this directory in Git 3.0.
> +endif::without-breaking-changes[]
>  
>  logs::
>  	Records of changes made to refs are stored in this directory.

The above parts of the documentation getting commented out all look
sensible to exclude in a build that omits these older mechanisms.
But can we do it with !with-breaking-changes instead?
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Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index a734c6d6243..53a05eb8030 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -221,6 +221,10 @@  asciidoc.conf: asciidoc.conf.in FORCE
 	$(QUIET_GEN)$(call version_gen,"$(shell pwd)/..",$<,$@)
 endif
 
+ifndef WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES
+ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -awithout-breaking-changes
+endif
+
 ASCIIDOC_DEPS += docinfo.html
 
 SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.adoc b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.adoc
index 6348ef1dcdf..62ef1c98c26 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.adoc
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@  config.worktree::
 	working directory in multiple working directory setup (see
 	linkgit:git-worktree[1]).
 
+ifdef::without-breaking-changes[]
 branches::
 	A deprecated way to store shorthands to be used
 	to specify a URL to 'git fetch', 'git pull' and 'git push'.
@@ -164,6 +165,7 @@  branches::
 	"$GIT_COMMON_DIR/branches" will be used instead.
 +
 Git will stop reading remotes from this directory in Git 3.0.
+endif::without-breaking-changes[]
 
 hooks::
 	Hooks are customization scripts used by various Git
@@ -231,6 +233,7 @@  info/sparse-checkout::
 	This file stores sparse checkout patterns.
 	See also: linkgit:git-read-tree[1].
 
+ifdef::without-breaking-changes[]
 remotes::
 	Stores shorthands for URL and default refnames for use
 	when interacting with remote repositories via 'git fetch',
@@ -241,6 +244,7 @@  remotes::
 	"$GIT_COMMON_DIR/remotes" will be used instead.
 +
 Git will stop reading remotes from this directory in Git 3.0.
+endif::without-breaking-changes[]
 
 logs::
 	Records of changes made to refs are stored in this directory.
diff --git a/Documentation/meson.build b/Documentation/meson.build
index ead8e482131..4e4fca283c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/meson.build
+++ b/Documentation/meson.build
@@ -283,6 +283,10 @@  elif docs_backend == 'asciidoctor'
   ]
 endif
 
+if not get_option('breaking_changes')
+   asciidoc_common_options += ['--attribute', 'without-breaking-changes']
+endif
+
 git = find_program('git', required: false)
 xmlto = find_program('xmlto')