[darcs-users] "Static Gitit" site.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Daniel Carrera writes:
 > Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > > Daniel Carrera writes:
 > > 
 > >  > My personal opinion is that running a website directly off of a SCM is a 
 > >  > mistake. But oh well.
 > > 
 > > What is a wiki (that provides history), if it's not an SCM?
 > 
 > I think you know what I meant.

To be honest, I don't.  Sure, branching and merging are not much used
in current wikis, but think about a wiki where all edits go first to a
review branch, and are promoted to mainline by an editor (or
moderator, in the case of spam filtering).  The revert wars that you
occasionally see on Wikipedia could be (somewhat) diminished if the
wiki automatically linked "divergent opinions" at the top.  Heck, if a
revert war started, you could lock down the mainline version and only
allow editing of "divergent opinions".

There are other ways to implement this workflow, of course, and ISTR
Wikipedia policy does address this.  But I don't think this is at all
unnatural.