Ok, so this kind of bugs me. I have a list of revisions and when I try to make a previous revision current, it copies that revision and sets it current. Great, now I have 2 copies of the same revision. All I wanted to do was revert back to a previous one. Hmmm...

Now, I can see the benefit to creating the copy, but usability wise, this is not the expected result. If I'm reverting back to an older revision why is a copy of that being made? It doesn't make sense to me. Do other revision systems do this? I haven't encountered any like this.

A patch to change this is pretty trivial, but I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on this system. If people agree, I'll come up with a patch to fix this.

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killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

In fact, the behaviour was initially to not create a copy. Some people explained that the expected behaviour (probably from some wiki software) would be to create copies. Thus I chaned it. :p

m3avrck’s picture

m3avrck commented

Ah ok, well I still thing the copies is part is "non-intuitive". Can you guys post more feedback? I'd like to see it changed if people agree or leave it if the majority likes it that way, cheers!

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

some comments can be found here:

http://drupal.org/node/30329

http://drupal.org/node/30098

m3avrck’s picture

m3avrck commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

killes, I see now. Perhaps I was a bit haste in making my comment here :-) I see now why the copy is useful and I'll close this thread appropriately :-)