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Why

The docs sync from sourcegraph/sourcegraph (doc/_generated.push.sh) does cp -R -L doc/cli/** _clone/docs/cli/ — it only adds and updates pages, never deletes. So when a command is removed from src-cli, its reference page lingers here forever. Replaying the sync against main shows zero drift in the 62 generated pages, but 36 files under docs/cli/references/ are never written by it.

This PR deletes the 28 that are stale. No redirects are added; none of these pages are linked from anywhere in the site.

Removed (28 files)

Command removed from src-cli

Pages Removal
extensions/{index,copy,delete,get,list,publish} sourcegraph/src-cli#1173 (extensions platform sunset)
lsif sourcegraph/src-cli#1147 (→ src code-intel upload)
scout sourcegraph/src-cli#1196
sbom, signature sourcegraph/src-cli#1273 (SBOMs/signatures no longer published as of 7.0.2852; the how-tos already carry deprecation notices)
admin sourcegraph/src-cli#1309 (built for the appliance, which never launched)
validate sourcegraph/src-cli#1310

Command never shipped

prompts + 13 subcommand pages (#1155) documented sourcegraph/src-cli#1168, which was closed unmerged.

Stale duplicates shadowing generated pages

auth.mdx and codeowners.mdx collide with auth/index.mdx / codeowners/index.mdx: contentlayer flattens both to cli/references/auth, and allPosts.find returned the stale flat file. After this change /cli/references/auth and /cli/references/codeowners render the generated group pages (verified with contentlayer build).

Kept

search-jobs/{cancel,create,delete,get,list,logs,restart,results} — the subcommands exist, but src doc only emits a single search-jobs.md because searchJobsCommands isn't in the commanders map in cmd/src/doc.go. Fix belongs upstream.

Verification

  • npx tsc --noEmit passes
  • npx contentlayer build generates 493 docs; cli/references/auth and cli/references/codeowners now resolve to the index.mdx files
  • No remaining links to the deleted slugs anywhere in docs/ or src/

Follow-up (upstream)

To stop this recurring, _generated.push.sh should mirror docs/cli/references/ (delete-then-copy) instead of copying over it. Done in sourcegraph/sourcegraph#15529 (merge after sourcegraph/sourcegraph#15528 and #1889).

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The docs sync from sourcegraph/sourcegraph (doc/_generated.push.sh) only
copies generated pages into docs/cli/; it never deletes, so pages for
commands removed from src-cli have lingered. Remove them.

Removed from src-cli:
- extensions/* (src-cli#1173), lsif (#1147), scout (#1196),
  sbom + signature (#1273), admin (#1309), validate (#1310)

Never shipped:
- prompts/* documented src-cli#1168, which was closed unmerged

Stale duplicates shadowing generated pages:
- auth.mdx and codeowners.mdx collide with auth/index.mdx and
  codeowners/index.mdx on the same route; contentlayer picked the stale
  flat files, hiding the generated group pages.

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marcleblanc2 force-pushed the cli-refs/remove-stale-command-pages branch from 3032bf5 to dd1683d Compare September 9, 2026 03:55
marcleblanc2 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
Teams were removed in Sourcegraph 7.0; src-cli#1376 removes the command. No redirect, per the same call as #1886.

Part of https://linear.app/sourcegraph/issue/FE-502

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Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com>
@marcleblanc2 marcleblanc2 changed the title cli: remove reference pages for commands that no longer exist in src-cli cli: Remove reference pages for commands that no longer exist in src-cli Sep 9, 2026
@marcleblanc2 marcleblanc2 changed the title cli: Remove reference pages for commands that no longer exist in src-cli docs/cli: Remove doc pages for removed src-cli commands Sep 9, 2026
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