Steve Bennett wrote:
I notice that recently there is a new "undo"
link appearing when
viewing old diffs. Strangely, it only appears for diffs other than the
latest one. It looks like what it does is let you remove text that was
introduced in an old revision but subsequently "consolidated" by a
later edit. I have two questions about it:
1) Is there any documentation on it, and if so, could that be linked
to from the text that says "The edit was successfully undone. Please
click save to apply this change." (and also from the error message you
get when it can't undo due to intervening edits)
Raimond Spekking wrote:
werdna(a)svn.wikimedia.org schrieb:
Revision: 17935
Author: werdna
Date: 2006-11-26 02:54:01 -0800 (Sun, 26 Nov 2006)
Log Message:
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* (bug 6295) Add a 'revision patching' functionality, where an edit
can be undone (with a functionality similar to diff rev1 rev2 | patch -R
rev3 -o rev3). This is triggered by including &undo=revid in an edit
URL. A link to a URL that will undo a given edit is shown on NEW
NON-CURRENT revision headers on diff pages.
It's bug 6925.
So if Bugzilla was working...
2) What's the rationale behind not making it
available for the latest
edit? Presumably this is a political sensitivity about not giving
rollback to everyone, but it's a bit odd to effectively give rollback
for old edits, rather than for all edits, which would be much more
useful. Could we perhaps trial "rollback for everyone"?
Possibly.
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