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Also, there was a Wikipedia/git project a while back (offline editing). All of the revision history was dumped into git. http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/annou
by kanzure 15y ago
Also, there was a Wikipedia/git project a while back (offline editing). All of the revision history was dumped into git.
http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/08/gitjs-a-git-implementation-in.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/08/gitjs-a-git-impleme...
Why does mediawiki have its own version control system, anyway?
- lsb 15y agoBecause Wikipedia started in January 2001, well before even Subversion was around. Levitation looks really cool, I wonder if using gitwiki will be easier and more sustainable than mediawiki. And hey, Dan Lucraft who wrote git.js is still at Songkick, YCS07!
- jmilloy 15y agoFor the record, (Wikipedia says) the initial release of subversion was Oct 20, 2000. It's still understandable that Wikipedia rolled it's own.
- lsb 15y agoYup, but it became stable enough to host itself Aug 2001, whereas I think it was January or February 2001 that the few articles started trickling in.
- TorKlingberg 15y agoWikipedia does not want to have branching, to force people to work together, rather than go off working on various rewrites. Each article is version controlled separately. The system does not handle tracking across merges and splits of articles, but many VCS have the same problem.