You might be interested in got hooks [1], especially the post-checkout hook.
I would try to automatically recompile the md-> HTML on every checkout, so the HTML is up to date after pulling [1] https://git-scm.com/book/gr/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks Am Sa., 7. Okt. 2017, 00:58 schrieb Anton Molyboha < anton.stay.connec...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 6:49 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 5:41 PM, <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: >> > On 10/06 05:49, Andrew Tselischev wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:07:04PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >> >> > The u8g8lib, which contains libraries to drive a great amount of >> >> > displays for mainly embedded electronics has a wiki on github, which >> >> > can be oficially git-pulled as a local copy...which I did. >> >> > >> >> > Now I have tons of *.md (markdown) -files instead of html and I >> >> > dont know of any handy viewer for these. >> >> > >> >> > Since I want to update the repo from time to time >> >> > I dont want to convert them. >> >> > >> >> > Is there any recommended quick and clean way to view these files on >> the fly as >> >> > they would be html? >> >> > >> >> > Thanks a lot for any help in advance! >> >> > Cheers >> >> > Meino >> >> > >> >> >> >> Markdown is a markup language that was specifically designed to be >> readable in the source. >> >> >> >> However, if you still find it hard to read, perhaps syntax >> highlighting in a fancy >> >> text editor can help approximate the intended effects of the markup. >> >> >> >> Also, there are markdown-to-HTML translators. Some are even included >> in portage tree. >> >> >> > >> > >> > I dont want to convert the md-files to html, since I want to update >> > the repo later (see above). >> > The problem are files referencing other files. Reading the md-files >> > via vim (for example) would imply to grab all references by hand. >> > Fortheremore, tne docs are filled with graphics (for example images >> > of the fonts, which can be used), which cannot be displayed with an >> > ASCII-editor. >> > Formatting is necassary with this docs... >> > >> >> Typically what is done is you render the whole Wiki to HTML, and then >> view it in a browser. You don't edit the HTML directly. It should be >> possible to generate it incrementally. >> >> The one catch is that they might be relying on GitHub's integrated >> Wiki system. If they are, you might need to install Gollum to process >> the markdown files to HTML. >> >> Cheers, >> R0b0t1 >> >> > This is a definite overkill, but I'm using JetBrains' IntelliJ Idea > (actually PyCharm) with the markdown plugin. It shows markdown and html > side-to-side in the editor. > > Anton > >