On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 14:53, Jonathan Wakely
I've once again got lost trying to find how to check out Boost from Git.
I started at boost.org and (after some missteps) went to https://www.boost.org/users/download/#repository which tells me
"Details of the git repositories are on the Boost wiki." https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ModularBoost
That takes me to a page with about 20 links. Eventually I decided that the 13th one is the one I want: Getting Started with Modular Boost https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/TryModBoost
That takes me to a page that says: "This page is superseded by https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Getting-Started Please help migrate the rest of the old wiki !"
But when I go to that page it says: "The Boost Wiki is at: https://github.com/boostorg/wiki/wiki"
So I go there instead, which has nothing about Git.
The "Getting Started" page has a link to "Getting Started with Modular Boost Library Development using Git" right at the very bottom, and the "Getting Started - Using Git" link in the sidebar takes me to a different page with very generic Git info (not specific to Boost), and again, near the bottom, is the "Getting Started with Modular Boost Library Development using Git" link. So I click that and ...
I'm back in Trac, at https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/StartModWorkflow I don't care bout Boost's use of Git Flow. I don't care about your branching policy, I want to check out the repo!
It turns out that on the front page of https://github.com/boostorg/wiki/wiki I should have clicked the "Cheat Sheet" link in the sidebar: https://github.com/boostorg/wiki/wiki/Getting-Started%3A-Cheat-Sheet
Could you please make that easier to find from boost.org?
It seems to me that https://www.boost.org/users/download/#repository should just link straight to that cheat sheet, or to another page with the correct git submodule commands for checking out the repo.
Also, several links from the https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/ModularBoost page should be fixed to go to the right place in the new github wiki, instead of to a page that says "this has moved to X" and then when you got to X it says "the wiki is at Y", and just links to the front page of Y (not the page you were actually trying to find).