[pmwiki-users] page history question

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Jun 18 17:53:01 CDT 2007


On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:10:53PM -0500, Tegan Dowling wrote:
>      > Okay I tested this:
>      > Opened a page, clicked once inside the text area,
>      > clicked Save. No actual page content change.
>      > Now this is recorded as entry in RecentChanges
>      > and in the page history with an empty entry.
>      > What changed is the LastModified time stamp and
>      > LastModifiedBy author name, even though no modification has happened.
>      >
>      > It would be nice if this behaviour could be suppressed.
>      ...
>
>      So, I don't think we can turn off same-text posts entirely.
>      What we could potentially do, however, is change the code so
>      that the page is still saved and attributes are generated,
>      but no RecentChanges entry is made and an entry isn't
>      made in the page history.
>      ...
>      Personally, I think that if we just suppressed the
>      updating of RecentChanges on same-text edits, then
>      everything would probably work out okay.  But I'm open for
>      opinions here.
> 
>    What about suppressing a NotifyList-generated message, or an RSS sorted by
>    most-recent?  Which options would allow for those, and/or are there issues
>    with them?

I should be able to do something similar for NotifyList messages.
For most people RSS will already work "as expected", since
it is generally keyed off of the list of changes given on
RecentChanges.

Thanks,

Pm




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