Re: Google Summer of Code 2012... and git wiki

From: David Barr <davidbarr@google.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2012, 04:06 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFfmPPMPi0W=26FGrJ5Qw512CmfHS3sg7mnouU9oQtNj9SxfZw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120302005638.GC21835@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 12:27:40AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> Google Summer of Code 2012 has started.  The Git Development Community
>> has time till March 9 to submit organization application.

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>> I don't know what are ETA on bringing Git Wiki fully up, but I doubt it
>> would be possible at http://git.wiki.kernel.org -- it is more than two
>> months since the event and wiki is not functional yet.  Perhaps it
>> could be hosted at git-scm.com somewhere -  but it really should be
>> true wiki, editable without need to use git.
>
> FWIW, I really like the GitHub wikis, because they are backed by git. So
> you can choose whether to use the web interface or not. And you can
> write in a variety of markup languages, including mediawiki, though when
> I tried importing the old git wiki many moons ago, I noticed that the
> formatting of many of the pages was not quite right.

Since we are enumerating the options, I'll mention that code.google.com also has wiki support and that the wiki content is exposed as a git remote.

  git clone https://code.google.com/p/git-mirror.wiki/

I'm not sure how the syntax compares to mediawiki and friends.

  http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/WikiSyntax

-- David Barr.