>It's really not. Things that are (relatively) simple in the
>database tend to require walking the entire revision
>tree in Git in order to figure the same data out.
>
>Git is awesome for software development, but trying
>to use it as an article development tool is really a bad 
>solution in search of a problem. We could've had the 
>same argument years ago and said "why use a database, 
>SVN stores information in a linear history that's useful 
>for articles." Having diverging articles may be cool/
>desired, but using Git is not the answer.
>
>-Chad

Fair enough.  I learn something new every day.  I definitely think that
distributed article editing is a great idea, even if a git-like system is
not the answer to it.

Thank you,
Derric Atzrott


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