node/doc/contributing/maintaining-acorn.md

Maintaining acorn

The acorn dependency is a JavaScript parser. acorn-walk is an abstract syntax tree walker for the ESTree format.

Updating acorn

The tools/dep_updaters/update-acorn.sh script automates the update of the acorn source files.

Check that Node.js still builds and tests.

Committing acorn

1. Add acorn:

   $ git add deps/acorn
   

2. Commit the changes: git commit.
3. Add a message like:

   deps: update acorn to <version>
   
   Updated as described in doc/contributing/maintaining-acorn.md.
   

Updating acorn-walk

The tools/dep_updaters/update-acorn-walk.sh script automates the update of the acorn-walk source files.

Check that Node.js still builds and tests.

Committing acorn-walk

1. Add acorn-walk:

   $ git add deps/acorn-walk
   

2. Commit the changes: git commit.
3. Add a message like:

   deps: update acorn-walk to <version>
   
   Updated as described in doc/contributing/maintaining-acorn.md.