Update the init.md
instructions about generating an example bitcoin.conf
file.
Additionally, the (EDIT: removed this change from the PR.)share/examples/bitcoin.conf
placeholder file says to follow the instructions in contrib/devtools/README.md
, which was confusing to me since that README talks about many scripts. It would be helpful to point out to the user which section to refer to.
This issue includes an accompanying PR #30154.
Background
-
Two years ago,
share/examples/bitcoin.conf
was replaced with a placeholder file. To see an examplebitcoin.conf
, the user now runs thecontrib/devtools/gen-bitcoin-conf.sh
script, which replaces the placeholder file with the parsed contents ofbitcoind --help
. -
The instructions in
init.md
about an examplebitcoin.conf
haven’t changed significantly since they were added almost 10 years ago.