[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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