[pmwiki-users] pruning by version (was pruning page histories)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:32:15AM -0500, Russ Fink wrote:
> [Giving Menachem some additional "press,"] this is probably the more 
> relevant question, is there a way to keep only a set number of revisions of 
> a file, independent of date?  If not, is it easy to build that in?  
> DiffKeepRevs?

It wouldn't be hard to build that in, but this would make it
possible for someone to make edits to a page that aren't easily restored/
reversed.  For example, if $DiffKeepRevs=10, then a malicious author
can just edit the page ten times in rapid succession to cause the
history to fall off the end of the page such that "Restore" is no
longer available.

Pm


> >From: Menachem Shapiro <menachem.shapiro at gmail.com>
> >On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:11:28 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud
> ><pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >
> >Is there a way to prune by revisions instead of days? In other words
> >only make the last x amount of changes visible?
> >
> >Menachem
> >
> 
> 
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