Commit d1abbb3b authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Add guide on changing a document's location

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[ruby-dl]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ "Ruby download website"
## Changing document location
Changing a document's location is not to be taken lightly. Remember that the
documentation is available to all installations under `help/` and not only to
GitLab.com or http://docs.gitlab.com. Make sure this is discussed with the
Documentation team beforehand.
If you indeed need to change a document's location, do NOT remove the old
document, but rather put a text in it that points to the new location, like:
```
This document was moved to [path/to/new_doc.md](path/to/new_doc.md).
```
where `path/to/new_doc.md` is the relative path to the root directory `doc/`.
---
For example, if you were to move `doc/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md` to
`doc/administration/lfs.md`, then the steps would be:
1. Copy `doc/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md` to `doc/administration/lfs.md`
1. Replace the contents of `doc/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md` with:
```
This document was moved to [administration/lfs.md](../../administration/lfs.md).
```
1. Find and replace any occurrences of the old location with the new one.
A quick way to find them is to use `grep`:
```
grep -nR "lfs_administration.md" doc/
```
The above command will search in the `doc/` directory for
`lfs_administration.md` recursively and will print the file and the line
where this file is mentioned. Note that we used just the filename
(`lfs_administration.md`) and not the whole the relative path
(`workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md`).
## API
Here is a list of must-have items. Use them in the exact order that appears
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