March 20-26, 2022 in Darker: Exploring revision diagrams and resolving installation issues

[akaihola]

This week, we focused on improving documentation and addressing installation concerns. We opened an issue (#326) to explore the use of Git diagrams for illustrating the various features of the -r/--revision argument. This initiative aims to enhance user understanding of complex concepts like double and triple dots, explicit worktree, and pre-commit mode. We're considering using Mermaid for creating these diagrams, which is supported by GitHub and potentially by Read the Docs through sphinxcontrib-mermaid.

We also addressed an installation issue reported by a user on Arch Linux (#343). While the problem turned out to be specific to the user's system rather than Darker itself, our investigation process helped document various installation scenarios on different platforms. We successfully tested Darker installation on Ubuntu and Arch Linux, both as root and non-root users, providing valuable troubleshooting steps for future reference.

In other developments, we continued discussions on enhancing our GitHub Actions workflow. We decided to postpone the implementation of pre-commit checks in our CI pipeline until version 1.6.0 (#311), opting to maintain our current approach for the upcoming 1.5.0 release.

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