say briefly what InputKey does instead of being mysterious

Havoc Pennington 2011-10-18 15:08:48 -04:00
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@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ There are three flavors of key:
computed one time when loading the project, and kept around).
- `TaskKey[T]`: a key with a value that has to be recomputed each time,
potentially creating side effects.
- `InputKey[T]` which isn't covered in the Getting Started Guide
because it's not as commonly used. Check out [[Input Tasks]]
for more about it.
- `InputKey[T]`: a task key which has command line arguments as
input. The Getting Started Guide doesn't cover `InputKey`,
when you finish this guide, check out [[Input Tasks]] for more.
A `TaskKey[T]` is said to define a _task_. Tasks are operations such as
`compile` or `package`. They may return `Unit` (`Unit` is Scala for `void`),