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 <canan...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Purodha Blissenbach
> <puro...@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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