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diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/showdiff.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/showdiff.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cedc4311c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/showdiff.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +[[template id=plugin name=showdiff author="[[JeremieKoenig]]"]] +[[tag type/useful]] + +This plugin, which can be downloaded +[here](http://www.jk.fr.eu.org/ikiwiki/showdiff.pm), +adds a "Show Diff" button to the page edition template. +When clicked, a diff between the stored page and provided content +is shown in the "Page Preview" area. + +It depends on +[this patch](http://www.jk.fr.eu.org/ikiwiki/pluggable_editpage_buttons.diff), +which does the following: + + * add a title to the editpage form; + * pass a reference to the list of buttons to the formbuilder_setup + hooks, so we can add ours; + * relax asumption about the possible submit values (use "Save Page" + explicitly); + * de-hardcode the submit buttons from the editpage template + (was this intended to work around something?). + +## Problems + +No special handling is done of concurrent edits: changes introduced +independently will show up in the requested diff, although they will +be merged when the page is saved. I suspect even detecting this case +would require changes in the RCS backends. |