spec: split up sections to separate .md files

[SteveLasker]

The distribution spec currently has greater than 4,500 lines. Attempting to find or edit a section becomes a tedious task.

Issue is to break the spec up into logical units, similar to the image-spec.

[vbatts]

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[jzelinskie]

As long as the split makes sense; I find that the image spec's layout is suboptimal because it jumps across files and sometimes has cyclic references. On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:42 AM Vincent Batts <notifications@github.com> wrote:

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[SteveLasker]

I’ll make a TOC proposal for review, before making a split up PR

[SteveLasker]

As I started to consider a new TOC, I wondered what opinions were on links to the current spec, including anchors.
Before I make a new TOC proposal, would some block is it could break links like: https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/blob/master/spec.md#initiate-blob-upload
I suppose I could put a list of headings in the footer as forwarders

Link Cross Refernece

Initiate Blob Upload

moved here

[jonjohnsonjr]

As long as the split makes sense; I find that the image spec's layout is suboptimal because it jumps across files and sometimes has cyclic references.

I tend to agree. GitHub's search is... not great, so splitting across pages makes it nearly impossible to find anything. Right now I can just Ctrl+F within the page.

[vbatts]

lets not split up just now. Instead lets look at the reorg #126