Trent W. Buck wrote:
If you're saying "just let everyone edit the same working tree", then you can easily lose information if two people try to edit the same wiki article at once. Moinmoin works around this, for example, with per-article advisory locking -- the same functionality seen in RCS, about the oldest and least powerful VCS around.
I think that's what wikis generally do. So I guess a wiki could be compared to the oldest and least powerful VCS. The ability to merge has been around for along time, and a modern VCS (e.g. not CVS) should be very good at merging (atomic, handling renames, etc).
To be clear, I don't think that *in principle* it is wrong to use a VCS as a site backend. I just point out that I've seen this attempted before by OpenOffice for many years and they never got it right. That doesn't mean that it is not possible. But it does suggest that it is not straight forward.
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