We are definitely planning to add a note that you suggest, Chris... so that people resetting their repositories are reminded that the wiki is stored there too.
Also: in the case of dire mistakes and hundreds of hours of lost wiki data, we can also restore wiki stuff from backup. It would have to be a special case, but it's possible. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Chris DiBona <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
