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Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-remote-mediawiki: new tool to preview local changes without pushing

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 9, 2013, 18:13 UTC
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<20130609181302.GD810@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:01:48PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> > I also wonder if it would be useful to be able to specify not only files
> > in the filesystem, but also arbitrary blobs. So in 4b above, you could
> > "git mw preview origin:page.mw" to see the rendered version of what
> > upstream has done.
> 
> Next step could even be "git mw diff $from $to", using the wiki to
> render the diff. Not a priority, but could be funny.

I was actually thinking along the same lines. I often do something similar with Git's documentation. When you are tweaking the formatting or an asciidoc knob, it is useful to diff the rendered output to check that the changes had the effect you wanted.

I usually have done so by hand, but I actually wonder if "git difftool" could be used as a wrapper for this (I suspect not, because you have to deal with the whole build tree, not just individual blobs).

-Peff
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