Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2013, #05; Fri, 12)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

* bp/mediawiki-preview (2013-07-08) 7 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2013-07-12 at 870890a)
 + git-remote-mediawiki: add preview subcommand into git mw
 + git-remote-mediawiki: add git-mw command
 + git-remote-mediawiki: factoring code between git-remote-mediawiki and Git::Mediawiki
 + git-remote-mediawiki: update tests to run with the new bin-wrapper
 + git-remote-mediawiki: add a git bin-wrapper for developement
 + wrap-for-bin: make bin-wrappers chainable
 + git-remote-mediawiki: introduction of Git::Mediawiki.pm

 Add a command to allow previewing the contents locally before
 pushing it out, when working with a MediaWiki remote.

 I personally do not think this belongs to Git.  If you are working
 on a set of AsciiDoc source files, you sure do want to locally
 format to preview what you will be pushing out, and if you are
 working on a set of C or Java source files, you do want to test it
 before pushing it out, too.  That kind of thing belongs to your
 build script, not to your SCM.

There's one big difference: when you use AsciiDoc/C/Java/... your build
system works locally. "git mw preview" uses the remote wiki to do the
rendering. It doesn't do so with the remote-helper interface, but uses
the same remote and same configuration as the remote-helper, and it
shares some code with it. It seems logical to let it leave next to the
remote-helper (but clearly in contrib/, not in the core Git).

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Matthieu Moy
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