Content management system

A non-transitory machine readable medium storing one or more sequences of instructions, wherein execution of said one or more instructions by one or more processors contained in an content management system causes said content management system to perform the actions of:

• maintaining a plurality of content items in a repository;
• receiving a create request indicating a plurality of portions of one or more of said plurality of content items;
• generating a new content item incorporating said plurality of portions indicated in the create request;
• and
• checking-in said new content item into said plurality of content items.

A method for updating content items, said method comprising:

• maintaining, by a content management system, a plurality of content items in a repository;
• receiving, by said content management system, an update request specifying a modified portion of a content item of said plurality of content items, said modified portion corresponding to a previous portion of said content item;
• generating, by said content management system, a revised content item by incorporating said modified portion in place of said previous portion in said content item;
• checking-in, by said content management system, said revised content item as a revised version of said content item into said plurality of content items.