When a user resets their version control, where those wiki pages were stored, and then they were no longer available, this is the programmed behavior. This isn't an ambiguous result.
I might point out that the reset routine says in big red letters, *Warning:* Resetting the repository will delete everything in the repository and its history. Additionally, it asks you to consider mightily what you are doing. I don't think that we can do more than we're doing while maintaining functionality and have it change the number of people who overlook this and make a mistake while resetting. I have sympathy, as I've made similar mistakes, one answer might be that we might want to add "Including any wiki content you may have made", but the rest is pretty clear that this is a fairly dire thing to want to do. Chris On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Fu Yicong <[email protected]> wrote: > > My god, how can this happen?? After I found that my old wiki contents > are not editable, I tried to create a new one, then found that all my > old contents are gone!! > Such unexpected data loss should never be overlooked by > code.google.com engineers, right?? It's lucky that I happened to have > a quick backup - copy+paste to a rich editor, but later turned out > just ill-formatted text afterwards..... > > Since many project owners like me, may have written wiki by hand > first, without using any SCM, later decided to turn on svn or hg, do > you expect they to see losing existing wiki at all?? > Even you may put a warning, it still require extra work for project > owners to transit old wiki to new one - and is there a good way? - > Just how difficult is it to migrate old wiki to new one seamlessly and > automatically? Must there be a suffering for end users? > > I'm already losing quite some trust in code.google.com. Starting to > wonder what if I happen to switch from svn to hg one day, will it lose > data too? Both code and document? Can't imagine. > > Hope anyone who's in charge provide an answer to we faithful but > disappointed Google users. > > > On Nov 7, 5:34 am, Jacob Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's occurring because your wiki pages no longer exist in source > > control. Wiki pages are stored under /wiki in your subversion > > repository; when you reset the repository, you deleted those wiki > > pages. Unfortunately, the wiki editor doesn't handle this case well at > > all - it throws errors. > > > > If you want, we can synchronize your wiki with the contents in > > subversion - just note that in your case, this will remove all of your > > wiki pages. > > > > -- > > Jacob Lee > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > when trying to edit any of my wiki pages, i get the following error > > > > > Server Error > > > > > The server encountered an error and could not complete your request. > > > If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this > > > error message and the query that caused it. > > > > > The report link takes me to the main google help, where google code is > > > no where to be found. > > > > > What do i do? > > > > -- Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source and Developer programs can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Site and Weblog: http://dibona.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
