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Re: Using Git as "undo" engine/backend for web editors

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badcat <bastibense@gmail.com> writes:

> We are developing a web based editor for page layouts. A lot of
> customers have requested a way to "undo" mistakes - and we are
> looking into the options we have.
>
> The whole system is built around the idea that a user can
> create a number of objects on a page; upload images and movies
> and create hyperlinks, etc. Data is submitted from time to time
> using an AJAX request. The server validates the data and saves
> it to the disk.
>
> The problem with this is, that a user can't go back (undo) any
> mistakes or even go back to an older revision. Each "document"
> is basically a folder on the disk and has a plain structure
> where all required data is stored.
>
> One of my ideas was to use Git for this purpose.

This idea has been used successfully for ikiwiki (see
http://ikiwiki.info/), for what it's worth, so I doubt that there
are any immediate pitfalls.

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Using Git as "undo" engine/backend for web editors badcat <bastibense@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 08:35 -0700
  Re: Using Git as "undo" engine/backend for web editors Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2012-06-29 09:09 -0700

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