wallet/docs/rootDocs

title
README

pre alpha documentation (mostly a wish list)

copyright © and license

pre-requisite, Pandoc to build the html documentation from the markdown files.

Windows pre-requisites: Visual Studio and git-bash

To obtain the source code from which the project can be built, including this README.html, from the bash command line (git-bash in windows).

git clone --recurse-submodules missing url

To build the docs, you need pandoc on the path.

cd wallet/docs
./mkdocs.sh

To configure and build the required third party libraries in windows, then build the program and run unit test for the first time, you need to have Visual studio build tools at their default location)

cd wallet
./winConfigure.bat

Or, if you are in the command shell or power shell,

.\winConfigure.bat

After a pull from remote in which the submodules have changed, the pull fails to automatically update the submodules by default, and when you switch or checkout branches, the switch fails to automatically switch and checkout the brances.

After a pull that gives you a status of modified submodules.

git submodule update --init --recursive --remote

After a checkout or branch switch that gives you a status of modified submodules.

git submodule update --recursive

The documentation is in pandoc flavored markdown, which is conveniently edited in vscode with the markdown lint and Pandoc extensions included and, if you have launched code in the docs directory, with file/preferences/Extensions/Markdown/Styles set to pandoc_templates\\style.css, that being the style used by the mkdocs.sh documentation build script.

On Windows, if Git Bash and Pandoc has been installed, you should be able to run this shell file in bash by double clicking on it.

if you add the recommended repository configuration defaults to your local repository configuration

git config --local include.path ../.gitconfig

this will substantially mitigate the problem of submodules failing to update in pushes, pulls, checkouts, and switches.

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It will, however, also implement signed commits, insist that you have gpg on your path, and that you have cohfigured a signing key in your local config, and will refuse to pull updates that are signed by a gpg key that you have not locally trusted. because cryptographic software is under attack from NSA entryists and shills, who seek to introduce backdoors.

This may be inconvenient if you do not have gpg installed and set up.

It also means that subsequent pulls and merges will require you to have gpg trust the key public_key.gpg, and if you submit a pull request, the puller will need to trust your gpg public key.

.gitconfig adds several git aliases:

1. git lg to display the gpg trust information for the last few commits. For this to be useful you need to import the repository public key public_key.gpg into gpg, and locally sign that key.
2. git graph to graph the commit tree with signing status
3. git alias to display the git aliases.

# To verify that the signature on future pulls is
# unchanged.
gpg --import  public_key.gpg
gpg --lsign 096EAE16FB8D62E75D243199BC4482E49673711C

We ignore the Gpg Web of Trust model and instead use the Zooko identity model.

We use Gpg signatures to verify that remote repository code is coming from an unchanging entity, not for Gpg Web of Trust. Web of Trust is too complicated and too user hostile to be workable or safe.

Never --sign any Gpg key related to this project. --lsign it.

gitconfig disallows merges unless you have told gpg to trust the public key corresponding to the private key that signed the tip of the root. So part of the pull request process is getting the puller to trust your public key, and you will not be able to pull updates unless you tell gpg to trust the key that is in the root directory as public_key.gpg.

Never check any Gpg key related to this project against a public gpg key repository. It should not be there.

gitconfig disallows merges unless you have told gpg to trust the public key corresponding to the private key that signed the tip of the root. So part of the pull request process is getting the puller to trust your public key, and you will not be able to pull updates unless you tell gpg to trust the key that is in the root directory as public_key.gpg.

Never use any email address on a gpg key related to this project unless it is only used for project purposes, or a fake email, or the email of an enemy. We don't want Gpg used to link different email addresses as owned by the same entity, and we don't want email addresses used to link people to the project, because those identities would then come under state and quasi state pressure.

Pre alpha release, which means it does not yet work even well enough for it to be apparent what it would do if it did work.