From 2c7c834bac5ea07c489ba306ca4cd350f5b8b968 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lcawl <lcawley@elastic.co>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 14:26:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Updates documentation tests in contributing.md

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md      | 8 ++++++++
 docs/README.asciidoc | 1 -
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index f1f78910e9a4d..b8f4262ca5ce8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -209,6 +209,14 @@ Before submitting your changes, run the test suite to make sure that nothing is
 ./gradlew check
 ```
 
+If your changes affect only the documentation, run:
+
+```sh
+./gradlew -p docs check
+```
+For more information about testing code examples in the documentation, see 
+https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/docs/README.asciidoc
+
 ### Project layout
 
 This repository is split into many top level directories. The most important
diff --git a/docs/README.asciidoc b/docs/README.asciidoc
index f78cf8b86b4d8..766aeae0c5d94 100644
--- a/docs/README.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/README.asciidoc
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Snippets marked with `// CONSOLE` are automatically annotated with "VIEW IN
 CONSOLE" and "COPY AS CURL" in the documentation and are automatically tested
 by the command `gradle :docs:check`. To test just the docs from a single page,
 use e.g. `gradle :docs:check -Dtests.method="\*rollover*"`.
-To test the docs in the x-pack folder, use the command `./gradlew -p x-pack/docs check`.
 
 NOTE: If you have an elasticsearch-extra folder alongside your elasticsearch folder, you must temporarily rename it when you are testing 6.3 or later branches.