The MDN Change history reader

This script makes it possible to differentiate between two text files containing the latest modifications of two distinct folders in order to indicate the absence of a page or an update of the pages.

Recovering data

1. In order to generate a file, you need to open a Bash command block, and use the following command to retrieve the information from the mdn/content repository:

   git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD files/en-us/ | grep ".html$" | while read filename; do
     echo "$(git log -1 --format="%ad" -- $filename) $filename" >> logs-en-us.txt
   done

   Note: You must have the folder locally on your computer, be in content and run the command from the root content.

2. Then you need to retrieve the data for the language you want to check. For example with the French folder :

   git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD files/fr/ | grep ".html$" | while read filename; do
     echo "$(git log -1 --format="%ad" -- $filename) $filename" >> logs-fr.txt
   done

   Note: You must have the folder locally on your computer, be in translated-content and run the command from the root translated-content.

   Note 2: If you wish to change the language, you must change files/fr/ and logs-fr.txt to the code used on the MDN for your language.

3. Place both log files in the history folder of history-content so that the script can process them.

Processing the data

Now let's set up the important part of the system, the language we are checking. In the index.js file, change the following line to the language you want to check:

const lang = 'fr';

Then you just have to launch the index.html page and wait for the result to be returned.