Brion Vibber wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
>It would /really/ be nice to have a "combine
page histories" option
>for Admins.
I'm reluctant to do such as there's presently
no way to extricate the
combined histories if one makes a mistake (or, hypothetically, a rogue
sysop goes on a rampage) short of checking backup archives and manually
reassigning the entries.
OTOH, it's much more *likely* for somebody to make a mistake
using the current hackish process than through a programmed procedure.
That is, having only the hackish process makes this happen less often,
but it makes each given instance more prone to error.
I'm going to make a specific request to SourceForge:
"Have a method for administrators to combine edit histories.
"Also have a method to separate out histories to undo mistakes.
"Better yet, make undoing each of these processes easy enough
"that it'll be safe to allow any user to do them.
But we should discuss here how (or if) we want such a process to work,
and on <wikitech-l> how (or if) such a process could be built.
-- Toby