Re: Programming With Revision History
| From: | Eric Butera | Date: | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:07:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Programming With Revision History | ||
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Nate Tallman
<nate.tallman@connectivhealth.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> Does anyone know of any good literature on programming revision history into
> an application? I'm looking for something covering theory around revision
> history.
>
> For a little background info, I'm dealing with lesson plans that will need
> to be edited by many different sources. I like the way wikimedia handles
> revision history, but I'm just curious what my options are.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nate
>
I don't have any links for you, but I do have a question. How is your
data being stored? Is it a single text value? Is it a lot of join
records spanning multiple tables? Depending on your answer you're
going to have to handle things quite differently. Duplicating a
single record is much easier.
Text based revisions are a bit different than a HTML revision too.
With HTML all sorts of code changes could have happened without a
single visual change. In that case should you really show the user a
difference? It depends on your target.