On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Damien Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe we should change that use from ?rev... to ?conflict= If we follow your _cc idea, we could change from ?rev= to ?cc= > > I think if we change from _rev to something else, _cc for concurrency > control is good. I'm not sure this is necessary. yes, if we make the change _cc is the best so far. I can already imagine office workers thinking it stands for "conflict catcher". > > Maybe we should only allow the ability to getting old revisions > (?disk_rev=...) with a setting in the ini, defaulting it off. That > discourages it's use as general purpose mechanism, but is easy to turn on if > you really need it. > Not a bad idea. The idea that you can't depend on it being available would discourage apps from attempting to use _cc as an easy way to provide undo functionality for users. Undo is a good feature, but undo that sometimes randomly has been compacted away is worse than no undo. -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
