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"... Numerous people have written diff and merge systems for wikis; TWiki even uses RCS. If they used git instead, the repository would be tiny, and you could m

"... Numerous people have written diff and merge systems for wikis; TWiki even uses RCS. If they used git instead, the repository would be tiny, and you could make a personal copy of the entire wiki to take on the plane with you, then sync your changes back when you're done. ..." Now that is a compelling idea. How portable is git? ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

jey 19y ago
My friend looked into porting git to Win32 natively and abandoned the effort because Git uses a ton of UNIX-isms, from fork() to sh scripts.
- Hexstream 19y ago
  Not really surprising, given the author...
- etal 19y ago
  I read that git was written to intentionally use every trick available in Linux for performance. Mercurial has similar features, but it's much more agreeable to cross-platform work. Mozilla uses it.
anotherjesse 19y ago
check out ikiwiki - http://ikiwiki.info/ http://ikiwiki.info/ - it backends to both git (and svn) to do this - git allows offline work.
- bootload 19y ago
  "... check out ikiwiki ..." Did, pretty smart & is what I was interested in. Do you know of any python language bindings? Doesn't seem to be any around, at least as far as I can see.