doc/todo/preview_changes_before_git_commit.mdwn



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 pushing.  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]]