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

Benoît Person [off-list ref] writes:

On 9 June 2013 08:08, Jeff King [off-list ref] 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.

Hum, so `git mw preview origin:page.mw` would just do the get
request to the remote mediawiki, save it locally and - maybe - load it
in the browser ? Is it really better than just opening the browser and
typing the right URL ?

Currently, this URL is one click away when you have preview file loaded
in a web browser.

origin:page.mw is not necessarily the best example, but HEAD^:page.mw
can exist in your local history and not on the wiki. Even HEAD:page.mw
can be interesting if you have uncommited changes. Not that it's
terribly useful to be able to preview it, but once you can deal with
local files, it should be easy enough to generalize it to any blob.

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