From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:53:51 GMT
Subject: Re: moving to a git-backed wiki
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=07yifUAQYqabA8Dv1qmBTe=50+BDN-b0YZ1zb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D4929F4.3020805@snarc.org>

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org> wrote:
>  On 01/02/11 22:48, J.H. wrote:
>>
>> The wiki will almost universally have a "central site" no matter what
>> the backend.  Personally I see little advantage to having a git backed
>> wiki myself.
>
> with git based wiki, you can clone the whole wiki on your local machine, and
> read/edit/commit on it locally using standard editor tool (i.e. $EDITOR).
> and the history/revision/diff is completely built-in.

But there's no git based wiki (or any other wiki) that has even a
fraction of the features that MediaWiki has, or IMO a markup format
similarly sane.

-- 
Felipe Contreras