[spec] Ddoc generator issue?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/17/19 8:56 AM, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Friday, 17 May 2019 at 12:17:43 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>> The error I get is this:
>>
>> .generated/stable_dmd-2.085.0/dmd2/linux/bin64/rdmd 
>> --compiler=.generated/stable_dmd-2.085.0/dmd2/linux/bin64/dmd 
>> -conf=.generated/stable_dmd-2.085.0/dmd2/linux/bin64/dmd.conf 
>> ../tools/contributors.d --format=ddoc "master" > 
>> .generated/contributors_list.tmp
>> fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in 
>> the working tree.
> 
> 
> Okay it seems that I needed to create a local master branch tracking 
> origin/master. Because I have set the default branch on my fork to some 
> other branch, there was no local master branch created.
> 
> Still - all I want to do is work on the spec. It is very very painful.

Well it's a large project and installation comes with some decorum. It's 
par for the course. To work on the spec is quite a hardcore thing to do, 
so don't get discouraged!

At a point I wrote an installation script, and others contributed to it 
and created this page:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor

I hope you'll find it helpful.