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- Only latest nightly crates' docs are published - How to get an old nightly docs
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I see there is a rustup component that includes compiler api docs, rustc-docs
❯ rustup component add rustc-docs
info: downloading component rustc-docs
rustc-docs installed 32.34 MiB
❯ rustup doc --rustc-docs
Opening docs named `rustc-docs` in your browser
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In my experience this did not add the internal rustc docs.
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the component was added several weeks ago, and yeah, it does not exist for your example nightly
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| The nightly-rustc internal crates' documentation is only available for the latest nightly. If you depend on compiler internals from an older nightly, you may want to refer to the internal documentation from that particular nightly. The only way to do this is to generate the documentation locally. For example, to get documentation for `nightly-2025-11-08`: |
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- this does not make it clear what nightly-rustc means... I assume that it means from the website
- it should at least mention that the docs are available via rustup
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Ran into this recently, so thought maybe adding this to the dev guide makes it clearer and searchable/discoverable.