On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Juliano F. Ravasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ironically, the per-file revision control model employed by > now-obsolescent VCSes like CVS and RCS would fit Wikipedia better than > Git (emphasis on revision control *model*, not software).
...because RCS tracks one file at a time while git tracks whole trees, as you point out. However git's shortcomings when used for a wiki could also be used by having a separate repository for each article. You wouldn't get many of the more interesting git features, and couldn't do `git pull' to update the whole wiki. But it would be interesting to compare one-git/mercurial/whatever-repo-per-article to one-rcs-file-per-article or the current one-article-history-per-article MediaWiki tracks in its database. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
