Hi, On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:28:09PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Do you mean, they either are ugly for people who want to synchronize > their own repository, or they are ugly to those who want to read the > history later on? > > For me the first is a concern, but the latter doesn't matter that much > for a wiki. A wiki is meant to be quickly edited by many people. I agree: while I would advocate clean history for almost every coding project, a wiki is really a very different beast. The whole *point* of a wiki is keeping the barriers to contribution as low as possible. And there is no need to track regressions in a wiki, so a clean history is not really important. Note though that in spite of the low barriers, even a wiki has considerable inertia: once something is done in a certain way, people are generally reluctant to change it, unless very are very sure that a change will be a substantial improvement. Thus I think that if you are very unsure about something, it still might be better to ask in advance in some cases... -antrik-
