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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com>
Cc: Vinayak Dev <vinayakdev.sci@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk: add #include "trace.h" to use trace_printf()
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:28:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1qhu9ifp.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJoAoZ=OEfsgkqsag926tH4GEuafX26A09SGZ1vR1uLh2W_4TA@mail.gmail.com> (Emily Shaffer's message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:33:49 -0700")

Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com> writes:

> Yeah, it's almost certainly stale in MyFirstObjectWalk - there was
> very recently a patch to clean up some headers which probably were
> implicitly including trace.h when I wrote this walkthrough.

We are lucky that we have folks like Vinayak who tried out the
examples and then bothered to spend time reporting the failure
discovered.  What does it take, however, for us to have a bit more
automated way to prevent such a breakage that comes from API
changes?  Is it feasible, for example, to add a test that extracts
code snippets from the MyFirstObjectWalk document and try to build
the result?  Alternatively, we can ship such a set of sample source
files somewhere in our tree (e.g. contrib/examples?) and have such
a test try to build using the current set of source files, but then
we need a mechansim to ensure that the sample source files will not
go out of sync with the document.

Thoughts?

Thanks.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-29 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-29 16:05 Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk: add #include "trace.h" to use trace_printf() Vinayak Dev
2023-06-29 16:33 ` Emily Shaffer
2023-06-29 16:35   ` Emily Shaffer
2023-06-29 18:45     ` Vinayak Dev
2023-06-29 23:09       ` Emily Shaffer
2023-06-30  5:48         ` Vinayak Dev
2023-06-30 15:39           ` Vinayak Dev
2023-06-29 19:28   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-06-29 23:06     ` Emily Shaffer
2023-06-30  2:21       ` Junio C Hamano

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