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 Git is a distributed revison control system originally developed for the linux kernel. Ikiki supports storing a wiki in git.
 
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+Ikiwiki can run as a post-update hook to update a wiki whenever commits
+come in. When running as a [[cgi]] with Git, ikiwiki automatically
+commits edited pages, and uses the Git history to generate the [[RecentChanges]] page.
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