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Django APIs or behaviors change.
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Django's documentation is kept in the same source control system as its code. It
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lives in the `django/trunk/docs`_ directory of our Subversion repository. Each
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document online is a separate text file in the repository.
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lives in the `docs`_ directory of our Git repository. Each document online is a
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separate text file in the repository.
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.. _django/trunk/docs: https://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/docs
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.. _docs: https://github.com/django/django/tree/master/docs
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Where to get it
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===============
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(tarball) of the code includes a ``docs/`` directory, which contains all the
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If you're using the development version of Django (aka the Subversion "trunk"),
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note that the ``docs/`` directory contains all of the documentation. You can
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``svn update`` it, just as you ``svn update`` the Python code, in order to get
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the latest changes.
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You can check out the latest Django documentation from Subversion using this
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shell command:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ svn co https://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/docs/ django_docs
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If you're using the development version of Django (aka "trunk"), note that the
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``docs/`` directory contains all of the documentation. You can update your
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Git checkout to get the latest changes.
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One low-tech way of taking advantage of the text documentation is by using the
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Unix ``grep`` utility to search for a phrase in all of the documentation. For
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Differences between versions
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As previously mentioned, the text documentation in our Subversion repository
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As previously mentioned, the text documentation in our Git repository
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contains the "latest and greatest" changes and additions. These changes often
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include documentation of new features added in the Django development version
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-- the Subversion ("trunk") version of Django. For that reason, it's worth
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-- the Git ("trunk") version of Django. For that reason, it's worth
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pointing out our policy on keeping straight the documentation for various
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versions of the framework.
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We follow this policy:
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* The primary documentation on djangoproject.com is an HTML version of the
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latest docs in Subversion. These docs always correspond to the latest
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latest docs in Git. These docs always correspond to the latest
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official Django release, plus whatever features we've added/changed in
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the framework *since* the latest release.
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* As we add features to Django's development version, we try to update the
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documentation in the same Subversion commit transaction.
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documentation in the same Git commit transaction.
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* To distinguish feature changes/additions in the docs, we use the phrase:
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"New in version X.Y", being X.Y the next release version (hence, the one

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