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
>

> _______________________________________________
> pywikibot mailing list
> pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot
>

_______________________________________________
pywikibot mailing list
pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot