I gave Levitation a try.
After some finessing I could get it to do what I wanted, I documented it in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157233 in case someone is interested.
I'm not sure how effective git was at automatically resolving the conflicts during the rebase so in order for this to fully work for me I would have to integrate the git part better in my script to have some sort of assisted conflict resolution. I'm unlikely to do that so likely will not continue this experiment.
Cheers, André
On 6 February 2017 at 16:33, Alex Brollo alex.brollo@gmail.com wrote:
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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