Friday, October 28, 2011

Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github

Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github

Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:57 AM PDT

We made a recent change to make it easy to update the NuGet documentation . In this post, I'll cover what the change was, why we made it, and how it makes it easier to contribute to our documentation. Our docs run as a simple ASP.NET Web Pages application that renders documentation written in the Markdown format. The Markdown text is not stored in a database, but live as files that are part of the application source code. That allows us to use source control to version our docs. We used to host the source for the docs site in Mercurial (hg) on CodePlex.com . Under the old system, it took the following to contribute docs. Install Mercurial (TortoiseHG for example) if you didn't already have it. Fork our repository and clone it to your local machine...(read more)
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