Reword to let newcomers work with a release, not with HEAD.

[mkevac]

If doing everything from 'getting started' page, one will find out that config is wrong:

marko@marko-desktop:~/tmp/prometheus (master) $ ./prometheus -config.file=prometheus.conf
prometheus, version 0.13.3 (branch: master, revision: 572b280)
  build user:       marko@marko-desktop
  build date:       20150520-18:45:13
  go version:       1.4.2
E0520 18:56:16.629990   18370 main.go:224] Couldn't load configuration (-config.file=prometheus.conf): yaml: line 3: did not find expected ',' or '}'
E0520 18:56:16.630068   18370 main.go:225] Note: The configuration format has changed with version 0.14, please check the documentation.

[fabxc]

So you pulled the master branch, into which we just merged a large set of changes.
Unfortunate timing as we have not officially made this a release candidate yet.

You can find docs matching those changes here:
https://github.com/prometheus/docs/blob/master/content/docs/operating/configuration.md

If you would like to run the latest version (which matches the documentation on prometheus.io) please checkout the 0.13.3 version tag and build from that.

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:56 PM Marko Kevac notifications@github.com
wrote:

If doing everything from 'getting started' page, one will find out that
config is wrong:

marko@marko-desktop:~/tmp/prometheus (master) $ ./prometheus -config.file=prometheus.conf
prometheus, version 0.13.3 (branch: master, revision: 572b280)
build user: marko@marko-desktop
build date: 20150520-18:45:13
go version: 1.4.2
E0520 18:56:16.629990 18370 main.go:224] Couldn't load configuration (-config.file=prometheus.conf): yaml: line 3: did not find expected ',' or '}'
E0520 18:56:16.630068 18370 main.go:225] Note: The configuration format has changed with version 0.14, please check the documentation.

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[beorn7]

We should probably update the docs to work from a release tag, not from head.

[juliusv]

...or download a released binary build.

[mkevac]

Strange fix. Instead of fixing documentation, you introduced additional work for a newbie to do. Instead of him just copy-pasting commands, he must check and wonder which version he has.

[beorn7]

@mkevac ???? Documentation has been fixed.

[mkevac]

Yes, it was. I am sorry. But not with mentioned change (beorn7 closed this in f0821ec 21 hours ago), but with f733434. This confused me.