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The fact that you can update and check in a single page at a time seems to make svn without needing to pull the whole repo seems to make subversion rather well
by capitainenemo 4y ago
The fact that you can update and check in a single page at a time seems to make svn without needing to pull the whole repo seems to make subversion rather well suited to wikis in my mind. Not to mention you don't usually need the more advanced git or mercurial features.
I wonder if anyone has tried that.
- smt88 4y ago> update and check in a single page at a time Git also enables this, so I don't understand your point.
- capitainenemo 4y agoYou can work on and commit your article page A all day long without having to update the rest of the wiki while your fellow author works on page B and does the same. Apparently git now has better narrow/shallow support though. Will have to check that piece out again. I wonder if the large file support is a bit less hackish now. It always felt like such a kludge compared to mercurial.
- tannhaeuser 4y agoNot only that, but SVN (mod_dav_svn) is the reference, or only, implementation for full-featured WebDAV, an HTTP extension protocol for resource-/file-based CMS to live at the same endpoint as your site. Though git doesn't require a full clone anymore for access to a single file since about two years.
- capitainenemo 4y agoAh? Narrow/shallow work well now? I can just grab one file and edit/check in without grabbing the rest or having history issues? Good to know. Had tried it a few years ago without success.