I automate a lot. But I've also learned to put help syntax on my scripts. Even if it's just a one-line thing, it lets me remember what I'm supposed to do with the script. It's a bad feeling knowing that you had a process completely automated, but can't remember how to invoke the automation.
Yes, I put that kind of stuff into a readme.md file at the top of the project. My objective is to set everything up from scratch on a brand new vm only by following the readme. If I can get that to work, I know I have a reproducible workflow...
I religiously create and follow README's as well. I use Makefiles and Fabric files also -- since they have top-level targets I can look at, and they follow common names.
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I automate a lot. But I've also learned to put help syntax on my scripts. Even if it's just a one-line thing, it lets me remember what I'm supposed to do with the script. It's a bad feeling knowing that you had a process completely automated, but can't remember how to invoke the automation.
Yes, I put that kind of stuff into a readme.md file at the top of the project. My objective is to set everything up from scratch on a brand new vm only by following the readme. If I can get that to work, I know I have a reproducible workflow...
I religiously create and follow README's as well. I use Makefiles and Fabric files also -- since they have top-level targets I can look at, and they follow common names.