This problem rings a bell: With Midgard you traditionally kept all your website (PHP) code inside a database. This made web-based remote editing easy, and allow

This problem rings a bell: With Midgard you traditionally kept all your website (PHP) code inside a database. This made web-based remote editing easy, and allowed us to use exactly same ACLs, versioning, and deployment rules for code as for the content. But at the same time, this meant that collaboration between users was hard, and that people were locked out of their favorite editors and VCSs.