[darcs-users] Theory of Patches documentation cleanup

[Gwern Branwen]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 00:38:09 +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> Eric Kow wrote:
>>> Daniel: in the meantime, do you mind working on the test server and your
>>> local darcs copy until we stabilise things?  We may lose your darcs
>>> history when we complete the migration and merge your revised work in.
>>
>> Ok. I need an access code to get an account. I'll also need to learn how
>> to commit to Gitit using darcs.
>
> I've updated http://test.darcs.net/ with the instructions (we had
> accidentally deleted all the content on this.  Luckily, we had the
> sources backed up somewhere with darcs).
>
> For now, please darcs send patches to the list.  We'll have to work
> out a gitit commit bit policy in the near future, probably a much
> looser one than what we have for the darcs source code.  I'll leave
> this up to Trent and Gwern to decide.
>
>> Can you tell me if we can edit the Gitit side bar? I was thinking we
>> could remove the last 4 links which are not navigation and replace them
>> with something like: Download, Getting Started, Support, Theory of
>> Patches and Contribute. The "Help" link in the current sidebar could be
>> moved to the Contribute page.
>
> Gwern: is this easy to do?
>
> Thanks!

Right now, the sidebar seems to be largely hardwired into the data/template.html:

            <fieldset>
              <legend>Site</legend>
              <ul>
                <li><a href="/">Front page</a></li>
                <li><a href="/_index">All pages</a></li>
                <li><a href="/_random">Random page</a></li>
                <li><a href="/_activity">Recent activity</a></li>
                <li><a href="/_upload">Upload a file</a></li>
                <li><a href="/Help">Help</a></li>
              </ul>
              $searchbox$
            </fieldset>

That said, template.html is of course editable as it gets copied into static/

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gwern
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