leanprover / leanprover/reference-manual
Document input_file and input_dir in Lake
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Description
What question should the reference manual answer?
How can I have a Lean file be rebuilt whenever a given text file changes?
The answer is needs with input_file/input_dir
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the reference-manual section covering Lake's needs declaration and its input_file/input_dir entries. Document how to rebuild a Lean file when a text file changes, ensuring the manual answers the stated question.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- build-system, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100