docs: explanation section for overlays
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Merged PR #370 as commit a90caeb4, adding overlay documentation and incorporating #365’s lifecycle changes; it resolved CRAFT-1560.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: PR #370 was merged as commit a90caeb4, adding an explanation section for overlays and incorporating the lifecycle documentation delivered by PR #365.
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This depends on #365 and incorporates its changes. I will unmark as draft once that PR has been merged.
Fixes CRAFT-1560
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
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| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged PR #370 as commit a90caeb4, adding overlay documentation and incorporating #365’s lifecycle changes; it resolved CRAFT-1560. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged craft-parts#370 as a90caeb4, adding overlay documentation and incorporating #365’s lifecycle changes; this resolved CRAFT-1560. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged documentation update adding an explanation section for overlays. Depends on and incorporates PR #365. Resolves CRAFT-1560. Approved by one reviewer with 273 additions and 9 deletions across eight files. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged documentation update adding an explanation section for overlays. Resolves CRAFT-1560 and incorporates changes from PR #365. |
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canonical/craft-parts#365
(confidence 100%)
PR #370 depended on and incorporated the overlay lifecycle documentation merged by PR #365.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #365 docs: include overlays in the lifecycle documentation. | craft-parts | merged | PR #365 was merged in commit 4315307e, adding overlays to the lifecycle documentation; follow-up PR #366 addressed a docs lint issue. | |
| #1453 docs: fix headings in 'Overlay step' explanation | craft-parts | merged | Merged PR #1453 as commit b6d6d35b, fixing heading levels in docs/common/craft-parts/explanation/overlays.rst so top-level headings no longer leak into the explanation category ToC. | |
| #322 docs: enable inclusion of overlay document | rockcraft | merged | Merged PR #322 in commit 181c9e1c, enabling inclusion of the Craft Parts overlay document in Rockcraft's documentation. | |
| #113 overlay: add overlay support to parts (CRAFT-470) | craft-parts | merged | Merged #113 via commit 2d90e608, adding overlay work-directory definitions, overlay subdirectory properties, and detection of overlay parameters and visibility for CRAFT-470. | |
| #1401 Docs: Rewrite `overlay` field description | craft-parts | closed | Resolved by PR #1418 (commit 4497ece3), which rewrote the overlay field description to clarify exhaustive filtering, negation syntax, and examples. | |
| #436 feat(docs): add definition for overlay_step in the docs | rockcraft | merged | Merged into Rockcraft, PR #436 added the missing overlay-step definition; maintainers chose its local wording instead of delaying for shared Craft Parts documentation. | |
| #795 docs: add labels for overlay step | craft-parts | merged | Merged in canonical/craft-parts#795 via commit 63145713, adding labels so overlay-step references remain valid when explanation pages are excluded. | |
| #765 docs: fix explanation pages | craft-parts | merged | Merged as 2ae355df, proofreading and updating Craft Parts and Rockcraft explanation pages; missing overlay labels were handled in follow-up #795. | |
| #1473 docs: add override-overlay | craft-parts | merged | Merged into main as #1473 (commit 1b2b7d5a), documenting the override-overlay key and recording the feature introduced by #1472 in the changelog. | |
| #135 executor: add overlay step handling (CRAFT-86) | craft-parts | merged | Merged PR #135 via b7527d5b, adding overlay-step execution handling that mounts the overlay stack during builds. |