[pmwiki-users] pruning page histories
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jan 27 11:11:28 CST 2005
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:32:57AM -0500, Russ Fink wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a lot of old cruft in my wiki pages, from countless numbers of
> edits. How can I prune out old histories keeping just the most recent
> version of a page?
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ExpireDiff .
> Also, I have low server space, would pruning a page help me reduce my disk
> space usage?
Yes. You might also take a look at
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/CompressedPageStore .
> I see from the help that there is a variable, DiffKeepDays - if I set that
> to some low value, say 10 days, what happens at expiry: is the old history
> truly pruned from the wiki files, or is it kept but just not shown? If
> really pruned, this is likely what I want.
The old history is truly pruned from the wiki files.
Pm
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