> > Patrick: > > I'm not so sure it would make much of a difference.
> Kathryn: > Because he doesn't want to lose the history for pages > that have *not*changed a lot. If one has a blanket "$DiffKeepDays" > value, say if one had a $DiffKeepDays value of 50, then a page that > was last changed two months ago would lose all of its history. > The problem is that there appears to be a mixture of some pages > that are changing a lot, and other pages that aren't. > Thus, what is wanted is some way of "trimming" the history only > when the history becomes unmanageable, and keeping it otherwise. Indeed! Sorry Patrick, I could not use my email for a couple of days, and could not answer to you question till now. And thank you, Kathryn, for you could properly answer for me, in such a clear way that would have been hard for me, with my own words. > Patrick: > A question, though... once the history exceeds the target size, > should we apply $DiffKeepDays on the entire history ... possibly > eliminating it entirely if the entire history is older than > $DiffKeepDays, or should we only remove the portion of the > history (that is older than $DiffKeepDays) needed to reach > the target size? Slightly puzzled, myself. I would opt for the **first**, anyway. ---- Just to add some extra information for your use/diagnose, Patrick, my experience was that, once the history had become too long, there was no way to see it entirely with the action=diff command. The server produced just some history, and then silently dropped the rest, with no error shown. I had no $DiffKeepDays settings, yet. So I expected to see all the history: no way. If ever this was due to a server timeout and/or a memory issue, I had no explicit error, anyway. (...till last week, when I opened this thread...) Luigi _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
