Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Towards reimplementing CVS

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> On what to archive:
>    I think we all agree that we don't want to archive everything.  The
>    question is how to filter out the small edits.
> 
>    When the author changes we should force the old version to be archived.
>    This keeps competing authors from wiping each others work.

I agree... author change == "commit"
 
>    So the question remains what to do when an author is editing his own work:
> 
>    Personally, there have been many times I've checked something into CVS
>    (or some other version control system) when I've almost immediately
>    discovered some braino and wanted to erase the checkin.
> 
>    I envision a check-box on the edit form labelled something like
>    "This is a minor edit.  Do not archive previous version."  The default
>    state of this button could be made to depend on the time since the
>    last edit (if it's been awhile, the default would be to make a backup).
> 
>    To me it seems better to decide at edit time whether a change is "minor",
>    than to try to guess whether the next change will be "minor".
> 
>    I suppose this is not incompatible with another checkbox labelled "commit",
>    which would set a PRECIOUS bit in $pagehash['flags'].

Doable; I would be happy with a "commit" button, but people would probably
just commit every change they make... hmm... maybe store whole versions
when authors change, and diffs when an author edits their own work? Just a
thought.

> Cool idea which just popped into head:
> 
>    Once the version history stuff is in place, must add 'diffs' link to
>    RecentChanges entries.
> 

I am drooling... :-)

sw

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