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diff --git a/doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn b/doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..187497cf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +ikiwiki allows to commit changes to the doc wiki over the `git://...` protocol. +It would be nice if there'd be a uniform way to view these changes before `git +push`ing. For the GNU Hurd's web pages, we include a *render_locally* script, +<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/render_locally>, with instructions on +<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing/web_pages.html>, section +*Preview Changes*. With ikiwiki, one can use `make docwiki`, but that excludes +a set of pages, as per `docwiki.setup`. --[[tschwinge]] + +> `ikiwiki -setup some.setup --render file.mdwn` will build the page and +> dump it to stdout. So, for example: + + ikiwiki -setup docwiki.setup --render doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn | w3m -T text/html + +> You have to have a setup file, though it suffices to make up your own +> if you don't have the real one. Using ikiwiki.info's real setup file +> won't actually work since it uses a search plugin that gets unhappy +> if this is not in `/srv/web/ikiwiki.info`. --[[Joey]] |