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Leo Famulari 69355e1283
doc: Add a Git hook that verifies signatures before pushing.
* HACKING (Commit Access): Describe the pre-push Git hook.
* etc/git/pre-push: New file.
2017-01-04 16:27:20 -05:00
Ludovic Courtès 20e2964344
doc: Explain how to set up Git for signing.
* HACKING (Commit Access): Give instructions on how to set up Git for
signing.
2016-07-24 19:54:15 +02:00
Leo Famulari a16db014d1
doc: Mention commit signatures in HACKING.
* HACKING: Mention commit signatures.
2016-07-14 15:37:51 -04:00
Mathieu Lirzin 8c01b9d05a doc: Move most 'HACKING' informations into the manual.
* HACKING (Contributing): New section.
  (Building from Git, The Perfect Setup, Coding Style, Submitting Patches):
  Move to ...
* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Likewise.
* doc/contributing.texi: ... here. New file.
* doc.am (EXTRA_DIST): Use it.
* README (Installation): Adapt to it.
* configure.ac (DOT): Likewise.
2015-06-14 01:44:54 +02:00
Alex Kost 80cd1d8992 doc: Add 'help2man' to HACKING.
* HACKING: Mention 'help2man'.
2015-06-10 10:03:19 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès c71979f416 doc: Add "Running Guix Before It Is Installed".
* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): New node.
  (Packaging Guidelines): Refer to it.
2015-05-23 15:57:18 +02:00
Mark H Weaver 24d77d1038 doc: Remove reference to git submodules in HACKING.
* HACKING: Remove mention of git submodules.
2015-02-26 00:44:13 -05:00
Ludovic Courtès 141360b5b2 doc: Mention 'guix lint' and '--list-dependent' in 'HACKING'.
* HACKING (Submitting Patches): Mention 'guix lint' and 'guix refresh
  --list-dependent'.
2014-09-03 15:43:07 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès d0c64188b6 doc: Mention upgrades that trigger a lot of rebuilds.
* HACKING (Commit Access): Mention upgrades that trigger a lot rebuilds.
2014-05-11 13:35:31 +02:00
Pierre-Antoine Rault 5ff3c4b820 doc: Update packaging guidelines.
* HACKING (Submitting Patches): Mention 'git send-mail'.
* doc/guix.texi (Packaging Guidelines): More details on how to prepare a
  package module.
  (Contributing): Add reference to #guix channel on Freenode.

Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
2014-03-10 23:43:31 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 25ed6edb6c doc: Adjust "Building from Git" instructions.
* HACKING (Building from Git): As a follow-up to ff1cbb9, update the
  error reported when pkg.m4 is missing.  Suggested by
  John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>.
2013-12-07 12:12:41 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 2df74ac117 doc: Add "Data Types and Pattern Matching" to the Coding Style.
* HACKING (Data Types and Pattern Matching): New section.
2013-09-07 15:51:29 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès 1a2e649561 doc: Add note about .dir-locals.el.
* HACKING (Coding Style): Mention special indentation rules and
  .dir-locals.el.
2013-08-30 23:53:13 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès e1c5a8357a doc: Add a "Coding Style" section in 'HACKING'.
* HACKING (Coding Style): New section.
2013-08-30 23:47:23 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès 67b1dd8dea doc: Remove "Adding new packages" from `HACKING'.
* HACKING (Adding new packages): Remove since it's now in the manual.
2013-08-30 23:47:22 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès 2d2ad98910 doc: Change `HACKING' to refer to guix-devel@gnu.org.
Reported by Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>.

* HACKING: Replace "bug-guix" by "guix-devel".
2013-08-26 22:23:53 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès 8b2d9e5d44 doc: Improve build instructions in README and HACKING.
* README (Requirements): Remove Nixpkgs.  Remove mentions of building
  from Git.
  (Installation): Refer to the manual.
* HACKING: List requirements for when building from Git.
  Remove the `dot: Command not found' error.
2013-07-19 00:07:03 +02:00
Nikita Karetnikov 84dbbc7651 doc: Add "Building from Git" to 'HACKING'. 2013-07-13 21:35:14 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès b208a00501 doc: Move the packaging guidelines to the manual.
* HACKING (Packaging Guidelines): Remove.
* doc/guix.texi (Packaging Guidelines): New node.
2013-07-07 23:26:31 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès 8b315a6dd5 doc: Add a "Porting" section.
* HACKING (Porting the Guix distro on a new platform): Remove.
* doc/guix.texi (Porting): New node.  Describe cross-compilation as the
  only approach.
2013-07-07 01:03:03 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès e20ec9cc51 doc: Mention copyright/license auditing in `HACKING'. 2013-06-10 00:00:33 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès e0b2737583 doc: Update bootstrap-related info in `HACKING'. 2013-06-09 15:24:24 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès 9bf3c1a77d doc: Write about patch submission and packaging guidelines.
* HACKING: Update the command names from `guix-build' to `guix build' & co.
  (Submitting Patches, Packaging Guidelines): New sections.
* doc/guix.texi (Contributing): New section.
2013-06-04 10:29:57 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès f5fd436020 doc: Add the commit policy to HACKING.
* HACKING (Commit Access): New section.
2013-02-12 00:14:32 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès c6dbd50594 doc: Add "The Perfect Setup" in 'HACKING'.
* HACKING (The Perfect Setup): New section.
2013-01-22 00:17:42 +01:00
Nikita Karetnikov e1f8f477de Update 'HACKING'.
* HACKING (When the platform is supported by Nixpkgs): Update the example.
2013-01-21 03:11:10 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 08ba7ff318 Update `HACKING'.
* HACKING: Capitalize the title.
  (Running Guix before it is installed): New section.
  (Adding new packages): Update example.
2013-01-18 00:48:07 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 9149f1a087 doc: Update porting instructions in `HACKING'.
* HACKING (When the platform is supported by Nixpkgs): Update
  instructions.
2013-01-08 22:57:09 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 3dc1970dda doc: Document basic package definitions.
* doc/guix.texi (Programming Interface): Add introduction.
  (Defining Packages): Populate.
2012-11-21 15:56:43 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès f8348b91ad Turn Guix into "GNU Guix".
* configure.ac: Change package name to "GNU Guix", and bug-report
  address to `gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org'.
* doc/guix.texi: Replace "Guix" by "GNU Guix" in some places.
  (Top, Introduction): Mention "for the GNU system".
* HACKING, README: Use "GNU Guix" instead of "Guix" in some places.
2012-11-18 15:22:00 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 18633d4f35 distro: Move bootstrap packages to (distro packages bootstrap).
* distro/packages/base.scm (glibc-dynamic-linker, %bootstrap-guile,
  bootstrap-origin, package-from-tarball, %bootstrap-base-url,
  %bootstrap-coreutils&co, %bootstrap-binutils, %bootstrap-glibc,
  %bootstrap-gcc, %bootstrap-inputs, package-with-bootstrap-guile): Move
  to ...
* distro/packages/bootstrap.scm: ... here.  New file.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add it.
* tests/builders.scm: Use (distro packages bootstrap).
  (%bootstrap-guile): Remove.
* tests/packages.scm: Likewise.
* tests/union.scm: Likewise, and remove @@ to access %bootstrap-inputs.
* tests/derivations.scm: Use (distro packages bootstrap) and remove @@
  to access %bootstrap-coreutils&co.
* HACKING (When the platform is supported by Nixpkgs): Update
  accordingly.
2012-11-04 22:04:41 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 59b775cca9 doc: Add "Adding new packages" in `HACKING'.
* HACKING (Adding new packages): New section.
2012-11-04 19:45:40 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 450ccdc3aa doc: Add `HACKING'.
* HACKING: New file.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add it.
2012-10-25 23:44:27 +02:00