On 1/12/22 16:35, Joachim Wagner wrote: > I cloned git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils to add a sentence on this to stat's > man page but coreutils/man/stat.x is only a template, missing what I see in > `man stat` on my system. Trying to find out how to contribute to > documentation, I encountered the following cycle with no answer: > > https://www.gnu.org/help/ > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html > https://www.gnu.org/doc/doc.html > https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html#helpgnu
Typically, the first thing to look at are the README* files, especially 'README-hacking'. Re. man pages of the coreutils: a) they are generated during the build from the output of "$UTIL --help" plus the information in "man/$UTIL.x". b) The information in the man pages should be kept as terse as possible, and more detailed information should go into the Texinfo manual (which also gets uploaded to https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/ in HTML, PDF and other formats after each release). Have a nice day, Berny
