Question

Is there a possibility to comfortably switch back to an older revision. It's a bit annoying to view an older version in raw text mode, copy it, and then pasting it into the edit window of the latest version. I think RCS provides better solutions which should be implemented into TWiki. .

• TWiki version: don't know
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: Sun Solaris
• Web browser: IE5.5
• Client OS: Windows 2000

-- UweBadelt - 19 Feb 2002

Answer

Sure, better solution does exist and it is implemented in TWiki.

Click at More link at page footer, you can View previous topic revision, just enter version number in provided box, and click on View Revision button.

You can also view page in raw format, in case you want to see source, and you are not allowed to Edit the page. Just click checkbox in raw format.

-- PeterMasiar - 20 Feb 2002

Further question

But now I can only view the older version. How can I get rid of the newer ones? I mean the chosen old version should become the newest one and it should be possible to edit it.

-- HanaSkoumalova - 20 Feb 2002

Further question II

I think Hana got to the point. I can easily view any older revision, but there is no comfortable way to use to edit an older revision which becomes the newest afterwards. Any solution?

-- UweBadelt - 23 Feb 2002

I believe that this is supported in twiki, but it's not documented. Take a look at the end of lib/TWiki.cfg.

So, do remove the last revision With NO way to get it back just edit the page, slap ?cmd=delRev to the end of the URL and kill it. Do this multiple times to back out multiple revisions. Again This is dangerous!

Note, since this removes previous revisions, they're removed from the history. If you edit version 1.15 of a topic, the current revision will be 1.14, not 1.16. You will have lost forever version 1.15. This is probably what you want, but I thought it needed to be pointed out.

-- ChrisRiley - 01 Mar 2002

I think that what is needed is a means to reinstate an old version as the newest version. That way the previous obsoleted versions remain in the history and everyone can see what happened.

This does not exist as a feature yet.

-- MartinCleaver - 20 Mar 2002