instructions for generating local previews from a git repo

[wiki.git] / projects / www.mdwn

diff --git a/projects/www.mdwn b/projects/www.mdwn
index e494524f86964473d7d9d79c39bc3f37ad8531dc..316f1f8bd32b8e1e9618f41be76682b2d810e22e 100644 (file)
--- a/projects/www.mdwn
+++ b/projects/www.mdwn
@@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ To work on the code surrounding the wiki in addition to the wikitext, clone the
     $ cd sipb-www
     $ git submodule update --init
 
+You can also clone directly from the filesystem if you have AFS permission. If you want a preview of your pages to be generated locally, you can use the generate-previews.sh script in the superrepo:
+
+    $ git clone /mit/sipb-www/git/sipb-www
+    $ cd sipb-www
+    $ git submodule update --init
+    $ # make changes here
+    $ mkdir /tmp/sipb-out
+    $ ./generate-previews.sh /tmp/sipb-out
+    $ firefox /tmp/sipb-out/index.html
+
 
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