Why is markdown different between JIRA and Stash?

Mike Kessler February 26, 2015

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Same company, similar looking interface, different markdown.  What's the rationale behind making the markdown different?

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Marcin
Atlassian Team
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February 26, 2015

The rationale has been addressed previously in https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/STASH-4385, but essentially the rationale is that Stash uses Markdown to be consistent with other software development tools.

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Pedro Cora
Atlassian Team
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February 26, 2015

Mike,

JIRA does not use Markdown. It uses it's own Wiki Markup: https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=all

-- Pedro

Mike Kessler February 26, 2015

Ok so it's not called Markdown, but that doesn't take away from the fact that there are two separate interfaces to accomplish relatively the same thing. Why would Atlassian choose to handle things differently between the applications? I'm most interested in the philosophy behind that decision.

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MattS
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March 2, 2015

JIRA uses a suspect of what confluence used to use. Stash was written later when a different markup language was more popular

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March 2, 2015

Subset not suspect

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