# # # patch "wiki/ikiwikimigration.mdwn" # from [f554ca72f2e8b80307ddf43c24bb8633e4d7da32] # to [80898acddf84f85d3f50777eec3035c092cf7091] # ============================================================ --- wiki/ikiwikimigration.mdwn f554ca72f2e8b80307ddf43c24bb8633e4d7da32 +++ wiki/ikiwikimigration.mdwn 80898acddf84f85d3f50777eec3035c092cf7091 @@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ 3. Translate the markup: * use [[ikiwiki/formatting]] to help, and add more notes here + * when migrating page markup, try to minimise the number of + additional unrelated formatting changes (like reflowing + paragraphs) in the same commit. + That can be done as a separate step. + + When flowing paragraphs, try to follow the "new sentence, new + line" convention. + Ikiwiki uses a blank line to break paragraphs. + This tends to mean that when someone else later adjusts a + few words in a paragraph, we don't get many + lines of sourounding diffs that are just reflowing. + 4. Generate, test, rinse, repeat. `commit` now and again if you like, because your page is still tagged as unfinished.