Thanks Chris and Ben for the reply. If it is costly to support the seamless data migration, then it is a MUST to prompt an explicit warning when user turns on or switches version control. Otherwise, the switch could be comprehended as ordinary as changing a preference item, while in fact it is not - on the contrary, a disastrous action.
Besides, is it possible to provide a data export function? If version control switch is inevitable, user at least should be able to download all his/her wiki/source code to local, then upload again after version control switch is done. (or, can you put a notice as a good practice: "Before switching, please clone all the data from repository to local as primary data, ....." Instructing user what to do to help migrating his/her data is always considerate) On Nov 10, 10:33 am, Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
