Document how to create releases and backports
This PR adds documentation on how to create Clippy releases and backports.
This PR also introduces a new backport/release process for Clippy:
- A beta branch is introduced: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/tree/beta
- Backports are now done by PRs to the `beta` branch
- also commits to the beta branch will be deployed, so that the documentation page has a tab for the Clippy beta release.
This has two advantages:
1. The Clippy release process is closer to the Rust release process: stable releases are tagged, the beta release has its own branch
2. Backports to beta are easier, since they don't need as much coordination as before. No new branch has to be created for a backport. Just a PR to the beta branch, like in the Rust repo.¹
I tested the deployment here: https://github.com/flip1995/rust-clippy/runs/534465081 and it created this commit: 734503377e, so it works.
r? @Manishearth your thoughts?
[Rendered (release.md)](https://github.com/flip1995/rust-clippy/blob/doc_release_backport/doc/release.md)
[Rendered (backport.md)](https://github.com/flip1995/rust-clippy/blob/doc_release_backport/doc/backport.md)
changelog: none
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¹: For this, we may have to modify the CI, so that beta rustc is used to check PRs to beta (or we test it locally, and merge it without bors)
`unused_self` false positive
fixes#5351
Remove the for loop in `unused_self` so that lint enabled for one method doesn't trigger on another method.
changelog: Fix false positive in `unused_self` around lint gates on impl items
git attribute macros not allowed in submodules
This change simply moves the `rust` macro definition directly into the
attributes for `*.rs` files.
git commands that recurse from the rust toplevel tree into submodules
produce errors in clippy due to the fact that:
"Custom macro attributes can be defined only in top-level
gitattributes files"
For example, from the toplevel `rust` directory in a rustc development
build, try:
$ git grep "search string" --recurse-submodules
Embedded within the actual results is the error message:
[attr]rust text eol=lf whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=4
not allowed: src/tools/clippy/.gitattributes:1
Thank you for making Clippy better!
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- [ ] `cargo test` passes locally
- [ ] Executed `cargo dev update_lints`
- [ ] Added lint documentation
- [ ] Run `cargo dev fmt`
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changelog: none
This change simply moves the `rust` macro definition directly into the
attributes for `*.rs` files.
git commands that recurse from the rust toplevel tree into submodules
produce errors in clippy due to the fact that:
"Custom macro attributes can be defined only in top-level
gitattributes files"
For example, from the toplevel `rust` directory in a rustc development
build, try:
$ git grep "search string" --recurse-submodules
Embedded within the actual results is the error message:
[attr]rust text eol=lf whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=4
not allowed: src/tools/clippy/.gitattributes:1
Move verbose_file_reads to restriction
cc #5368
Using `File::read` instead of `fs::read_to_end` does make sense in multiple cases, so this lint is rather restriction, than complexity
changelog: Move [`verbose_file_reads`] to restriction
Lint for `pub(crate)` items that are not crate visible due to the visibility of the module that contains them
changelog: Add `redundant_pub_crate` lint
Closes#5274.
Fix single binding closure
Fix the `match_single_binding` lint when triggered inside a closure.
Fixes: #5347
changelog: Improve suggestion for [`match_single_binding`]
Fix documentation generation for configurable lints
In #5135, the configuration macro changed, but the documentation generation script wasn't updated. This PR catches up on this.
[Preview](https://flip1995.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html)
r? @Manishearth
changelog: Document configuration options of lints again.
Improvement: Don't show function body in needless_lifetimes
Changes the span on which the lint is reported to point to only the
function return type instead of the entire function body.
Fixes#5284
changelog: none
