Merge branch 'eread/improve-rake-task-topics' into 'master'

Improve various Rake task topics

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!30124

doc/.vale/gitlab/spelling-exceptions.txt

@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ Piwik
 PgBouncer
 plaintext
 PostgreSQL
+precompile
 preconfigure
 preconfigured
 preconfigures

doc/administration/raketasks/check.md

-# Integrity Check Rake Task
+# Integrity check Rake task
 
-## Repository Integrity
+GitLab provides Rake tasks to check the integrity of various components.
+
+## Repository integrity
 
 Even though Git is very resilient and tries to prevent data integrity issues,
 there are times when things go wrong. The following Rake tasks intend to
@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:git:fsck
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:git:fsck RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-## Uploaded Files Integrity
+## Uploaded files integrity
 
 Various types of files can be uploaded to a GitLab installation by users.
 These integrity checks can detect missing files. Additionally, for locally
@@ -127,7 +129,7 @@ Checking integrity of Uploads
 Done!
 ```
 
-## LDAP Check
+## LDAP check
 
 The LDAP check Rake task will test the bind DN and password credentials
 (if configured) and will list a sample of LDAP users. This task is also

doc/administration/raketasks/geo.md

 # Geo Rake Tasks **(PREMIUM ONLY)**
 
+The following Rake tasks are for [Geo installations](../geo/replication/index.md).
+
 ## Git housekeeping
 
 There are few tasks you can run to schedule a Git housekeeping to start at the
-next repository sync in a **Secondary node**:
+next repository sync in a **secondary** node:
 
 ### Incremental Repack
 

doc/administration/raketasks/github_import.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ which will become the owner of the project. You can resume an import
 with the same command.
 
 Bear in mind that the syntax is very specific. Remove any spaces within the argument block and
-before/after the brackets. Also, Some shells (e.g., zsh) can interpret the open/close brackets
+before/after the brackets. Also, some shells (for example, `zsh`) can interpret the open/close brackets
 (`[]`) separately. You may need to either escape the brackets or use double quotes.
 
 ## Importing multiple projects

doc/administration/raketasks/ldap.md

-# LDAP Rake Tasks
+# LDAP Rake tasks
+
+The following are LDAP-related Rake tasks.
 
 ## Check
 
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ limit by passing a number to the check task:
 rake gitlab:ldap:check[50]
 ```
 
-## Run a Group Sync
+## Run a group sync
 
 > [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/14735) in [GitLab Starter](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 12.2.
 

doc/administration/raketasks/maintenance.md

-# Maintenance Rake Tasks
+# Maintenance Rake tasks
 
-## Gather information about GitLab and the system it runs on
+GitLab provides Rake tasks for general maintenance.
 
-This command gathers information about your GitLab installation and the System it runs on. These may be useful when asking for help or reporting issues.
+## Gather GitLab and system information
+
+This command gathers information about your GitLab installation and the system it runs on.
+These may be useful when asking for help or reporting issues.
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -50,20 +53,23 @@ Git:              /usr/bin/git
 
 ## Check GitLab configuration
 
-Runs the following Rake tasks:
+The `gitlab:check` Rake task runs the following Rake tasks:
 
 - `gitlab:gitlab_shell:check`
 - `gitlab:gitaly:check`
 - `gitlab:sidekiq:check`
 - `gitlab:app:check`
 
-It will check that each component was set up according to the installation guide and suggest fixes for issues found.
-This command must be run from your app server and will not work correctly on component servers like [Gitaly](../gitaly/index.md#running-gitaly-on-its-own-server).
+It will check that each component was set up according to the installation guide and suggest fixes
+for issues found. This command must be run from your application server and will not work correctly on
+component servers like [Gitaly](../gitaly/index.md#running-gitaly-on-its-own-server).
+
+You may also have a look at our troubleshooting guides for:
 
-You may also have a look at our Troubleshooting Guides:
+- [GitLab](../index.md#troubleshooting)
+- [Omnibus GitLab](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/README.html#troubleshooting)
 
-- [Troubleshooting Guide (GitLab)](../index.md#troubleshooting)
-- [Troubleshooting Guide (Omnibus GitLab)](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/README.html#troubleshooting)
+To run `gitlab:check`, run:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -77,7 +83,8 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:check
 bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-NOTE: Use `SANITIZE=true` for `gitlab:check` if you want to omit project names from the output.
+NOTE: **Note:**
+Use `SANITIZE=true` for `gitlab:check` if you want to omit project names from the output.
 
 Example output:
 
@@ -126,7 +133,7 @@ Checking GitLab ... Finished
 
 ## Rebuild authorized_keys file
 
-In some case it is necessary to rebuild the `authorized_keys` file.
+In some case it is necessary to rebuild the `authorized_keys` file. To do this, run:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -141,6 +148,8 @@ cd /home/git/gitlab
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:shell:setup RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
+Example output:
+
 ```plaintext
 This will rebuild an authorized_keys file.
 You will lose any data stored in authorized_keys file.
@@ -149,8 +158,8 @@ Do you want to continue (yes/no)? yes
 
 ## Clear Redis cache
 
-If for some reason the dashboard shows wrong information you might want to
-clear Redis' cache.
+If for some reason the dashboard displays the wrong information, you might want to
+clear Redis' cache. To do this, run:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -170,7 +179,7 @@ sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake cache:clear RAILS_ENV=production
 Sometimes during version upgrades you might end up with some wrong CSS or
 missing some icons. In that case, try to precompile the assets again.
 
-Note that this only applies to source installations and does NOT apply to
+This only applies to source installations and does NOT apply to
 Omnibus packages.
 
 **Source Installation**
@@ -193,6 +202,8 @@ GitLab provides a Rake task that lets you track deployments in GitLab
 Performance Monitoring. This Rake task simply stores the current GitLab version
 in the GitLab Performance Monitoring database.
 
+To run `gitlab:track_deployment`:
+
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
 ```shell

doc/administration/raketasks/project_import_export.md

@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
 > - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/3050) in GitLab 8.9.
 > - From GitLab 11.3, import/export can use object storage automatically.
 
-See also:
+GitLab provides Rake tasks relating to project import and export. For more information, see:
 
 - [Project import/export documentation](../../user/project/settings/import_export.md).
 - [Project import/export API](../../api/project_import_export.md).
 
+## Import/export tasks
+
 The GitLab import/export version can be checked by using the following command:
 
 ```shell
@@ -28,8 +30,6 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:import_export:data
 bundle exec rake gitlab:import_export:data RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-## Important notes
-
 Note the following:
 
 - Importing is only possible if the version of the import and export GitLab instances are

doc/administration/raketasks/storage.md

-# Repository Storage Rake Tasks
+# Repository storage Rake tasks
 
 This is a collection of Rake tasks you can use to help you list and migrate
 existing projects and attachments associated with it from Legacy storage to
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ the new Hashed storage type.
 
 You can read more about the storage types [here](../repository_storage_types.md).
 
-## Migrate existing projects to Hashed storage
+## Migrate existing projects to hashed storage
 
 Before migrating your existing projects, you should
 [enable hashed storage](../repository_storage_types.md#how-to-migrate-to-hashed-storage) for the new projects as well.
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ export ID_FROM=20
 export ID_TO=50
 ```
 
-You can monitor the progress in the **Admin Area > Monitoring > Background Jobs** page.
-There is a specific Queue you can watch to see how long it will take to finish:
-`hashed_storage:hashed_storage_project_migrate`
+You can monitor the progress in the **{admin}** **Admin Area > Monitoring > Background Jobs** page.
+There is a specific queue you can watch to see how long it will take to finish:
+`hashed_storage:hashed_storage_project_migrate`.
 
 After it reaches zero, you can confirm every project has been migrated by running the commands bellow.
 If you find it necessary, you can run this migration script again to schedule missing projects.
@@ -44,16 +44,18 @@ If you find it necessary, you can run this migration script again to schedule mi
 Any error or warning will be logged in Sidekiq's log file.
 
 NOTE: **Note:**
-If Geo is enabled, each project that is successfully migrated generates an event to replicate the changes on any **secondary** nodes.
+If [Geo](../geo/replication/index.md) is enabled, each project that is successfully migrated
+generates an event to replicate the changes on any **secondary** nodes.
 
 You only need the `gitlab:storage:migrate_to_hashed` Rake task to migrate your repositories, but we have additional
 commands below that helps you inspect projects and attachments in both legacy and hashed storage.
 
-## Rollback from Hashed storage to Legacy storage
+## Rollback from hashed storage to legacy storage
 
 If you need to rollback the storage migration for any reason, you can follow the steps described here.
 
-NOTE: **Note:** Hashed Storage will be required in future version of GitLab.
+NOTE: **Note:**
+Hashed storage will be required in future version of GitLab.
 
 To prevent new projects from being created in the Hashed storage,
 you need to undo the [enable hashed storage](../repository_storage_types.md#how-to-migrate-to-hashed-storage) changes.
@@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ export ID_FROM=20
 export ID_TO=50
 ```
 
-You can monitor the progress in the **Admin Area > Monitoring > Background Jobs** page.
+You can monitor the progress in the **{admin}** **Admin Area > Monitoring > Background Jobs** page.
 On the **Queues** tab, you can watch the `hashed_storage:hashed_storage_project_rollback` queue to see how long the process will take to finish.
 
 After it reaches zero, you can confirm every project has been rolled back by running the commands bellow.
@@ -89,9 +91,13 @@ If some projects weren't rolled back, you can run this rollback script again to
 
 Any error or warning will be logged in Sidekiq's log file.
 
-## List projects on Legacy storage
+## List projects
+
+The following are Rake tasks for listing projects.
+
+### List projects on legacy storage
 
-To have a simple summary of projects using **Legacy** storage:
+To have a simple summary of projects using legacy storage:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -105,7 +111,7 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:storage:legacy_projects
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:storage:legacy_projects RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-To list projects using **Legacy** storage:
+To list projects using legacy storage:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -120,9 +126,9 @@ sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:storage:list_legacy_projects RAILS_ENV=pr
 
 ```
 
-## List projects on Hashed storage
+### List projects on hashed storage
 
-To have a simple summary of projects using **Hashed** storage:
+To have a simple summary of projects using hashed storage:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -136,7 +142,7 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:storage:hashed_projects
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:storage:hashed_projects RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-To list projects using **Hashed** storage:
+To list projects using hashed storage:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -150,9 +156,13 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:storage:list_hashed_projects
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:storage:list_hashed_projects RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-## List attachments on Legacy storage
+## List attachments
+
+The following are Rake tasks for listing attachments.
+
+### List attachments on legacy storage
 
-To have a simple summary of project attachments using **Legacy** storage:
+To have a simple summary of project attachments using legacy storage:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -166,7 +176,7 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:storage:legacy_attachments
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:storage:legacy_attachments RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-To list project attachments using **Legacy** storage:
+To list project attachments using legacy storage:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -180,9 +190,9 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:storage:list_legacy_attachments
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:storage:list_legacy_attachments RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-## List attachments on Hashed storage
+### List attachments on hashed storage
 
-To have a simple summary of project attachments using **Hashed** storage:
+To have a simple summary of project attachments using hashed storage:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 
@@ -196,7 +206,7 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:storage:hashed_attachments
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:storage:hashed_attachments RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-To list project attachments using **Hashed** storage:
+To list project attachments using hashed storage:
 
 **Omnibus Installation**
 

doc/raketasks/import.md

-# Import bare repositories into your GitLab instance
+# Import bare repositories
 
-## Notes
+Rake tasks are available to import bare repositories into a GitLab instance.
 
-- The owner of the project will be the first admin
-- The groups will be created as needed, including subgroups
-- The owner of the group will be the first admin
-- Existing projects will be skipped
-- Projects in hashed storage may be skipped (see [Importing bare repositories from hashed storage](#importing-bare-repositories-from-hashed-storage))
-- The existing Git repos will be moved from disk (removed from the original path)
+Note that:
 
-## How to use
+- The owner of the project will be the first administrator.
+- The groups will be created as needed, including subgroups.
+- The owner of the group will be the first administrator.
+- Existing projects will be skipped.
+- Projects in hashed storage may be skipped. For more information, see
+  [Importing bare repositories from hashed storage](#importing-bare-repositories-from-hashed-storage).
+- The existing Git repositories will be moved from disk (removed from the original path).
 
-### Create a new folder to import your Git repositories from
+To import bare repositories into a GitLab instance:
 
-The new folder needs to have Git user ownership and read/write/execute access for Git user and its group:
+1. Create a new folder to import your Git repositories from. The new folder needs to have Git user
+   ownership and read/write/execute access for Git user and its group:
 
-```shell
-sudo -u git mkdir -p /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/new_group
-```
-
-### Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder
+   ```shell
+   sudo -u git mkdir -p /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/new_group
+   ```
 
-- Any `.git` repositories found on any of the subfolders will be imported as projects
-- Groups will be created as needed, these could be nested folders. Example:
+1. Copy your bare repositories inside this newly created folder. Note:
 
-If we copy the repos to `/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>`, and repo A needs to be under the groups G1 and G2, it will
-have to be created under those folders: `/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/G1/G2/A.git`.
+   - Any `.git` repositories found on any of the subfolders will be imported as projects.
+   - Groups will be created as needed, these could be nested folders.
 
-```shell
-sudo cp -r /old/git/foo.git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/new_group/
+   For example, if we copy the repositories to `/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>`,
+   and repository `A` needs to be under the groups `G1` and `G2`, it must be created under those folders:
+   `/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/G1/G2/A.git`.
 
-# Do this once when you are done copying git repositories
-sudo chown -R git:git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>
-```
+   ```shell
+   sudo cp -r /old/git/foo.git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>/new_group/
 
-`foo.git` needs to be owned by the `git` user and `git` users group.
+   # Do this once when you are done copying git repositories
+   sudo chown -R git:git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>
+   ```
 
-If you are using an installation from source, replace `/var/opt/gitlab/` with `/home/git`.
+   `foo.git` needs to be owned by the `git` user and `git` users group.
 
-### Run the command below depending on your type of installation
+   If you are using an installation from source, replace `/var/opt/gitlab/` with `/home/git`.
 
-#### Omnibus Installation
+1. Run the following command depending on your type of installation:
 
-```shell
-sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:import:repos['/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>']
-```
+   - Omnibus Installation
 
-#### Installation from source
+   ```shell
+   sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:import:repos['/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>']
+   ```
 
-Before running this command you need to change the directory to where your GitLab installation is located:
+   - Installation from source. Before running this command you need to change to the directory where
+     your GitLab installation is located:
 
-```shell
-cd /home/git/gitlab
-sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:import:repos['/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>'] RAILS_ENV=production
-```
+   ```shell
+   cd /home/git/gitlab
+   sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:import:repos['/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-<date>'] RAILS_ENV=production
+   ```
 
-#### Example output
+## Example output
 
 ```plaintext
 Processing /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-1/a/b/c/blah.git
@@ -73,8 +75,6 @@ Processing /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repository-import-1/group/xyz.git
 
 ## Importing bare repositories from hashed storage
 
-### Background
-
 Projects in legacy storage have a directory structure that mirrors their full
 project path in GitLab, including their namespace structure. This information is
 leveraged by the bare repository importer to import projects into their proper
@@ -86,17 +86,17 @@ improved performance and data integrity. See
 [Repository Storage Types](../administration/repository_storage_types.md) for
 more details.
 
-### Which repositories are importable?
+The repositories that are importable depends on the version of GitLab.
 
-#### GitLab 10.3 or earlier
+### GitLab 10.3 or earlier
 
 Importing bare repositories from hashed storage is unsupported.
 
-#### GitLab 10.4 and later
+### GitLab 10.4 and later
 
 To support importing bare repositories from hashed storage, GitLab 10.4 and
 later stores the full project path with each repository, in a special section of
-the Git repository's config file. This section is formatted as follows:
+the Git repository's configuration file. This section is formatted as follows:
 
 ```ini
 [gitlab]

doc/raketasks/list_repos.md

 # Listing repository directories
 
-You can print a list of all Git repositories on disk managed by
-GitLab with the following command:
+You can print a list of all Git repositories on disk managed by GitLab.
+
+To print a list, run the following command:
 
 ```shell
 # Omnibus
@@ -12,10 +13,13 @@ cd /home/git/gitlab
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:list_repos RAILS_ENV=production
 ```
 
-If you only want to list projects with recent activity you can pass
-a date with the 'SINCE' environment variable. The time you specify
-is parsed by the Rails [TimeZone#parse
-function](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TimeZone.html#method-i-parse).
+NOTE: **Note:**
+The results use the default ordering of the GitLab Rails application.
+
+## Limit search results
+
+To list only projects with recent activity, pass a date with the `SINCE` environment variable. The
+time you specify is parsed by the Rails [TimeZone#parse function](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TimeZone.html#method-i-parse).
 
 ```shell
 # Omnibus
@@ -25,6 +29,3 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:list_repos SINCE='Sep 1 2015'
 cd /home/git/gitlab
 sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:list_repos RAILS_ENV=production SINCE='Sep 1 2015'
 ```
-
-Note that the projects listed are NOT sorted by activity; they use
-the default ordering of the GitLab Rails application.