Rebuilding ReadMe on Git

ReadMe rebuilt its documentation platform around Git after its MongoDB-based architecture made versioning, history, branching, merging, deleted-page recovery, and bidirectional repository synchronization increasingly difficult to maintain. Previously, duplicating documents for each documentation version created substantial data overhead and failed to consistently track metadata and structural changes, while demand grew for workflows that allowed both nontechnical users in ReadMe’s editor and developers using GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket to collaborate on the same content. After evaluating database emulation, provider APIs, managed Git hosting, and self-hosted GitLab, the company built its own Git-backed infrastructure using bare repositories and the libgit2/NodeGit library, which enabled direct manipulation of Git objects without filesystem working-tree conflicts. The project required handling low-level Git operations, garbage collection, concurrency, caching, data migrations, internal repository-management tools, and a new flat-file content format in which versions became branches, categories became folders, and pages became MDX files with frontmatter. Completed over six months with company-wide effort, the Git-first redesign has made features such as branching, merging, reviews, local repository access, and external synchronization more coherent and extensible, while retaining an accessible UI for users who do not work directly with Git.

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