[pmwiki-users] MD5 checksums or version control (was: Re: Avoiding simultaneous edits)

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:56:05PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 01:12:25PM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> > At 2006-09-20  11:42 AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> I just haven't figured out the substitution markup that makes
> sense for this.  I can envision doing one of:
> 
>     Attach:foo.txt"%md5 %size"
>     Attach:foo.txt"$md5 $size"
>     Attach:foo.txt"{md5} {size}"
> 
> Unfortunately(?), one thing that *won't* work is the page variable
> markup, as in Attach:foo.txt"{$md5} {$size}", because page 
> variable substitutions take place before Attach: links.  Plus,
> it confuses attachments with pages, and people seem to get
> those confused enough already.

I like "%md5 %size" myself, because it is analogous to printf and
friends.

Kathryn Andersen
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