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* doc: Explain how to set up Git for signing.•••* HACKING (Commit Access): Give instructions on how to set up Git for signing. Ludovic Courtès2016-07-241-4/+8
* doc: Mention commit signatures in HACKING.•••* HACKING: Mention commit signatures. Leo Famulari2016-07-141-0/+4
* 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. Mathieu Lirzin2015-06-141-127/+6
* doc: Add 'help2man' to HACKING.•••* HACKING: Mention 'help2man'. Alex Kost2015-06-101-0/+1
* doc: Add "Running Guix Before It Is Installed".•••* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): New node. (Packaging Guidelines): Refer to it. Ludovic Courtès2015-05-231-12/+2
* doc: Remove reference to git submodules in HACKING.•••* HACKING: Remove mention of git submodules. Mark H Weaver2015-02-261-6/+0
* doc: Mention 'guix lint' and '--list-dependent' in 'HACKING'.•••* HACKING (Submitting Patches): Mention 'guix lint' and 'guix refresh --list-dependent'. Ludovic Courtès2014-09-031-0/+7
* doc: Mention upgrades that trigger a lot of rebuilds.•••* HACKING (Commit Access): Mention upgrades that trigger a lot rebuilds. Ludovic Courtès2014-05-111-1/+2
* 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> Pierre-Antoine Rault2014-03-101-2/+7
* 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>. Ludovic Courtès2013-12-071-2/+4
* doc: Add "Data Types and Pattern Matching" to the Coding Style.•••* HACKING (Data Types and Pattern Matching): New section. Ludovic Courtès2013-09-071-0/+12
* doc: Add note about .dir-locals.el.•••* HACKING (Coding Style): Mention special indentation rules and .dir-locals.el. Ludovic Courtès2013-08-301-3/+8
* doc: Add a "Coding Style" section in 'HACKING'.•••* HACKING (Coding Style): New section. Ludovic Courtès2013-08-301-0/+34
* doc: Remove "Adding new packages" from `HACKING'.•••* HACKING (Adding new packages): Remove since it's now in the manual. Ludovic Courtès2013-08-301-44/+0
* 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". Ludovic Courtès2013-08-261-4/+4
* 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. Ludovic Courtès2013-07-191-13/+16
* doc: Add "Building from Git" to 'HACKING'.Nikita Karetnikov2013-07-131-0/+35
* doc: Move the packaging guidelines to the manual.•••* HACKING (Packaging Guidelines): Remove. * doc/guix.texi (Packaging Guidelines): New node. Ludovic Courtès2013-07-071-10/+0
* 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. Ludovic Courtès2013-07-071-91/+0
* doc: Mention copyright/license auditing in `HACKING'.Ludovic Courtès2013-06-101-4/+5
* doc: Update bootstrap-related info in `HACKING'.Ludovic Courtès2013-06-091-4/+4
* 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. Ludovic Courtès2013-06-041-32/+48
* doc: Add the commit policy to HACKING.•••* HACKING (Commit Access): New section. Ludovic Courtès2013-02-121-0/+26
* doc: Add "The Perfect Setup" in 'HACKING'.•••* HACKING (The Perfect Setup): New section. Ludovic Courtès2013-01-221-0/+17
* Update 'HACKING'.•••* HACKING (When the platform is supported by Nixpkgs): Update the example. Nikita Karetnikov2013-01-211-2/+2
* Update `HACKING'.•••* HACKING: Capitalize the title. (Running Guix before it is installed): New section. (Adding new packages): Update example. Ludovic Courtès2013-01-181-3/+17
* doc: Update porting instructions in `HACKING'.•••* HACKING (When the platform is supported by Nixpkgs): Update instructions. Ludovic Courtès2013-01-081-23/+6
* doc: Document basic package definitions.•••* doc/guix.texi (Programming Interface): Add introduction. (Defining Packages): Populate. Ludovic Courtès2012-11-211-2/+2
* 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. Ludovic Courtès2012-11-181-1/+1
* 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. Ludovic Courtès2012-11-041-1/+1
* doc: Add "Adding new packages" in `HACKING'.•••* HACKING (Adding new packages): New section. Ludovic Courtès2012-11-041-0/+44
* doc: Add `HACKING'.•••* HACKING: New file. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add it. Ludovic Courtès2012-10-251-0/+119