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Re: Git-Mediawiki : Question about Jeff King's import script

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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Claire Fousse <claire.fousse@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Jeff King,
> We are the four students in charge of the Git-Mediawiki project
> proposed by Matthieu Moy.
> In case you skipped our email, here is a link to our last mail with a
> few information about the project
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg158701.html
> We based our script on what you called a few months ago the "quick and
> dirty perl script" for the import part and have a few questions about
> it.
> First of all, just in case, here is your original script :
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/167560
>
> It seems like you first used a hashmap for it to be transformed later
> into a flat list / array. What is the reasoning behind this ? Why not
> create an array right away ?
>
> Thanks for the script and for any information you can give us,
In a similar spirit, there is this Ruby script:
https://github.com/singpolyma/git-mediawiki/blob/master/clone.rb
using the Mediawiki API. Quite nifty.
Hope this helps,
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