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diff --git a/doc/intro.cli b/doc/intro.cli index 64f145d..e672f4d 100644 --- a/doc/intro.cli +++ b/doc/intro.cli @@ -565,6 +565,25 @@ $ git remote add origin git@github.com:john-doe/hello.git $ git push -u \ +We could have also done it the other way around: first created a project on +one of the hosting services (GitHub, GitLab, etc) cloned it, and then ran +\c{new} on that. One advantage of this approach is the \c{new} command's +ability to automatically extract the license and description from the existing +\c{LICENSE} and \c{README.md} files and use that to generate the \c{manifest} +file. This way we only need to specify things once and everything is nice and +consistent. Here is an example of this streamlined project creation workflow +(notice also the omitted project name in the \c{new} command): + +\ +# Create a project with LICENSE and README.md on one of the Git +# hosting services (GitHub, GitLab, etc) and then: + +$ git clone .../hello.git +$ cd hello + +$ bdep new -t exe -l c++ +\ + While we have managed to test a couple of platforms (Linux and Windows) and compiler versions (Clang and GCC) locally, there are quite a few combinations that we haven't tried (Mac OS with Apple Clang and Windows with MSVC, to name |