Merge pull request #1371 from CodyCBakerPhD/remove_asv_dev_docs

Remove `asv dev` from docs

Author: HaoZeke

docs/source/using.rst

@@ -303,10 +303,6 @@ for this machine::
 
 .. note::
 
-   There is a special version of ``asv run`` that is useful when
-   developing benchmarks, called ``asv dev``.  See
-   :ref:`writing-benchmarks` for more information.
-
    You can also do a validity check for the benchmark suite without
    running benchmarks, using ``asv check``.
 

docs/source/writing_benchmarks.rst

@@ -59,11 +59,14 @@ that your benchmarks may produce, pass the ``--show-stderr`` flag::
 
        asv run --show-stderr
 
-Finally, there is a special command, ``asv dev``, that uses all of
-these features and is equivalent to::
+Finally, a quick way to test out the benchmark suite before doing a full run is to use all of
+these features together with::
 
        asv run --python=same --quick --show-stderr --dry-run
 
+.. versionchanged:: 0.6.0
+   This replaces the now removed ``asv dev`` command.
+
 You may also want to only do a basic check whether the benchmark suite
 is well-formatted, without actually running any benchmarks::