Wiki vs repo

[adamcameron]

Mark, can you pls remind me why we moved everything to the wiki?

I'm missing some of the Github functionality that the wiki doesn't have:

• being able to see different branches
• Ryan was trying to put annotations against individual lines, which is possible in the normal repo, but we couldn't work out how to do it on the wiki

I thought it was so it can be edited inline, but Ryan pointed out that's possible in a normal repo too, so... erm?

Cheers fella

[cybersonic]

Because you can edit it directly in the ui, create table of contents and make it readable.

You are trying to use the wiki as a github repo, which you can do but not from the github interface, you can do it locally. You can easily move the wiki to a repo by a) clone the repo locally b) add the wiki as a remote c) pull from the wiki remote into your repo d) push the repo up to the git and just occasionally "publish" to the wiki

The wiki is easier to edit directly rather than monitor changes but I see what you are trying to do so might was well do that?

[adamcameron]

OK, cos one can edit the docs directly in the Github UI if they're just in the repo as opposed to the wiki. But the table of contents point is valid.

The issue is I am doing most of this work offline, so don't get any benefit from being able to edit stuff directly on Github anyhow. However I am missing the branching etc from the repo. Plus @ryanguill says one cannot add line-centric annotations in the repo, but not the wiki, which'd also be handy.

Will probably move it back to the repo at some stage.

[adamcameron]

Moved.