I can't remember the name, but i played around previously with a software
project that read in mediawiki XML dumps and converted them to a format
usable by git-fast-import. A quick google turned up levitation[1] which
seems to be a similar concept, but not the same one i used before
[1]
https://github.com/scy/levitation
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:58 AM, C. Scott Ananian <cananian(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Purodha Blissenbach
<purodha(a)blissenbach.org> wrote:
There has been a project in the past that
converted a MediaWiki code base
from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It
worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty
slow,
too.
If you could dig up more details on that project I'd be very
interested! Those who don't learn from history, etc. I'd love to
read through the code and see what was done. It would be relevant to
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004
--scott
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