On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:54:22 -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:42:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:58:11AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >> A distributed versioning system works like this. You have your own >> copy of the repository. You do all your edits, check-ins, and >> check-outs on that version. Every now and then (in the middle of the >> night when phone rates are cheap, for example) you sync your repository >> with one of the others. All the changes get sent back and forth, so >> afterward the repositories are the same. If there are simultaneous >> updates, the version control system merges them, unless there are >> serious incompatibilities, in which case, the changes have to be >> manually merged. But this merging can also be done anywhere by anyone, >> and the merge gets distributed in the same way. >> >> > Thanks Hendrik, > > This sounds neat. > > I'm looking over alioth, have registered and am waiting for the confirming > email. > > It looks like our project would best fit under topic "Installation/Setup". > > Still waiting to hear from others on this but I think that this will be > the way to go. We may want to put a single page on newbiedoc-wiki and > wiki.d.o pointing to whatever we create. > > Thanks, > > Doug.
It appears that ikiwiki can use mercurial as versioning system, which I believe is a distributed one. There's also work been reported connecting it to monotone, which is another. ikiwiki operates as a translator that translates incoming wikitext to html which is stored where your browser expects it. I'm not sure whether the wiki-style text or the html is the definitive version stored in the versioning system, but I'd expect it to be the wikitext. Should I investigate further? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
