Git is the next Unix

Re:Git is the next Unix by bootload on Saturday February 02, 2008 @12:12AM (#108241)

"... Numerous people have written diff and merge systems for wikis; TWiki even uses RCS. If they used git instead, the repository would be tiny, and you could make a personal copy of the entire wiki to take on the plane with you, then sync your changes back when you're done. ..."

Now that is a compelling idea. How portable is git? ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

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Re:Git is the next Unix by jey on Saturday February 02, 2008 @12:56AM (#108255)

My friend looked into porting git to Win32 natively and abandoned the effort because Git uses a ton of UNIX-isms, from fork() to sh scripts.

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Re:Git is the next Unix by etal on Sunday February 03, 2008 @09:29PM (#108896)

I read that git was written to intentionally use every trick available in Linux for performance. Mercurial has similar features, but it's much more agreeable to cross-platform work. Mozilla uses it.

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Re:Git is the next Unix by Hexstream on Saturday February 02, 2008 @01:12AM (#108258)

Not really surprising, given the author...

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Re:Git is the next Unix by anotherjesse on Saturday February 02, 2008 @04:29AM (#108296)

check out ikiwiki - http://ikiwiki.info/ - it backends to both git (and svn) to do this - git allows offline work.

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Re:Git is the next Unix by bootload on Saturday February 02, 2008 @06:14AM (#108319)

"... check out ikiwiki ..."

Did, pretty smart & is what I was interested in. Do you know of any python language bindings? Doesn't seem to be any around, at least as far as I can see.

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