I see a great advantage using diffs as history of pages - a trick to make revisions much lighter, even for very heavy pages. If I'm not wrong Dropbox uses this approach for revisions.

Alex

2017-02-06 10:49 GMT+01:00 André Costa <lokal.profil@gmail.com>:
Thanks!

I was completely unaware of that experiment. WIll look into it during the week.

/André

On 2 February 2017 at 15:09, Strainu <strainu10@gmail.com> wrote:
I haven't tested this and it's unmaintained, but I remember saying
"how cool is that" when I first saw it:
http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation

Once you're in git, what you want would be pretty much straightforward.

Strainu

2017-02-02 15:10 GMT+02:00 André Costa <lokal.profil@gmail.com>:
> I'm investigating the possibility of rebasing wikitext. I.e. attempting to
> replay user edits on top of a changed base text. I was wondering if this is
> something anyone else on this list has attempted/done?
>
> The background is a batchupload of images where I'd like to replace the
> description page but would like to do that without nuking contributions done
> to the page since it was created (or at least minimise/identify these)
>
> Cheers,
> André Costa / Lokal_Profil
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