Werner Almesberger <[email protected]> writes:
> David Kuehling wrote:
> >
> > Using GIT for a wiki? That's like carving text into stone... using a
> > CNC machine, programmed via punch cards, that are manually punched with
> > your big toe.
I know David's joking, but... Git's just a data-store--just like SQL....
And editing a wiki via SQL sounds like a worse idea than editing it
via Git :)
> Naw, but the CNC machine sounds useful ;-)
>
> All you need is a revision control system, a renderer, and - to lure
> the masses - some Web interface.
>
> For the revision control system, git seems a natural choice, given
> that it's fast and we use it already.
Well, *any* of the DVCS systems seems more apt as a back-end store
for a revision-controlled collection of text and auxiliary files
than whatever variant of SQL. Somewhere in the MediaWiki codebase
is an a revision-control system on top of SQL..., but not Monotone
or Fossil or any other general-purpose revision-control system.
If it was, it'd have an `annotate' feature... ;)
Here's a wiki that uses Bazzar for its back-end store, for example:
http://launchpad.net/wikkid
> No idea about the renderer.
Ikiwiki supports using any of several different version-control systems
as it's back-end store--including Git:
http://ikiwiki.info/rcs/
> It would render the pages between git and Web viewers - possibly via
> a static cache, for performance - and it would render local drafts
> for previewing. The Web interface would just stitch the pieces
> together.
I think (from what I understand of it) you may have just designed Ikiwiki :)
> Some months ago when we looked at such things the first time (there
> were various projects that implemented some git-based wiki), some of
> them didn't really expose the functionality necessary for local
> editing and Joachim dismissed others as too slow, but I wonder if
> this has changed since.
There are other considerations, too, of course--like, if you're hoping
to grow a community..., you might be better off using whatever tool
the community thinks works better for it--even if you hate it.
And that's not a dig at you--it's commiseration. :\
And on that note..., I had this same discussion, just the other day--
with me playing your part (I guess that was a rehersal, and I guess
that makes you... my understudy? ;)). Someone suggested this tool:
http://search.cpan.org/~markj/WWW-Mediawiki-Client/bin/mvs
It looks like it's even packaged in Debian (and probably other distributions).
--
"Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."
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