lib/tasks/index.rake: skip building 'technical/scalar.txt'

The documentation built from Git includes both 'Documentation/scalar.txt'
and 'Documentation/technical/scalar.txt'. Because 'index_doc()' builds the
documentation by basename, these two files conflict, ultimately resulting in
only the latter being saved to the DB.

Long-term, the cleanest permanent solution to this problem is to rename
'technical/scalar.txt' to something else in Git. In the meantime, to ensure
that the (more important) command documentation is rendered at the
git-scm.com/docs/scalar URL, skip the 'technical/scalar.txt' build entirely.

This commit should be reverted when 'technical/scalar.txt' has been renamed
in Git.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/tasks/index.rake b/lib/tasks/index.rake
index 3ac0f5ab..3ee615a9 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/index.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/index.rake
@@ -262,6 +262,8 @@ def index_doc(filter_tags, doc_list, get_content)
         path, sha = entry
         ids = Set.new([])
         docname = File.basename(path, ".txt")
+        # TEMPORARY: skip the scalar technical doc until it has a non-overlapping name
+        next if path == "Documentation/technical/scalar.txt"
         next if doc_limit && path !~ /#{doc_limit}/
 
         file = DocFile.where(name: docname).first_or_create