Render/preview a single file?

[Enrico Rossi]

Does it make sense for ssite to be able to preview a single file?

Currently:

ssite show ~/doc/file.md
[...]
NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: 9

Thanks
E.

[Enrico Zini]

It's tricky to determine the document root for the file: in the case of ssite show ~/doc/file.md, should it display file.html in the site contained in doc/, or doc/file.html in the site contained in /home/erossi, or similar for each combination of parents?

In theory if a user points to file.md I could go up until I see a .git and use that as the root, and if I don't find any I could use the directory that directly contains file.md. Would that be reasonable?

The only risk that I see is that staticsite might end up serving more than needed if file.md is not in a git repo, and there's a git repo in a parent directory. However show/serve by default serve only from localhost, so this is something that may unexpectedly disclose files to local users only.

Would that sound like a reasonable tradeoff?