Re: [Monotone-devel] ikiwiki and monotone

[hendrik]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:04:29PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> 
> You're right about the unfortunate lack of monotone (though that seems
> like it shouldn't be too hard to resolve), and close enough about the
> rest.
> 
> With a distributed VCS, it can be a distributed wiki. You work in the
> source directory, editing page source using your favourite editor,
> commit to your VCS, and re-make the website.  It also has a cgi mode
> that lets you edit the 'normal' wiki way too.  Generate locally, push
> to the VCS running on the/a box hosting the content.. sync and merge
> with other copies.

If it were to use monotone, and asked to display a page that had 
multiple heads, how should it proceed?  Give the user a choice of 
versions?  Display a graph of all possible versions?  Merge them on the 
spot?  Present a variorum edition?

-- hendrik