Question

I use twiki for documenting notes for a weekly meeting.

Here's an example of the problem I encountered. I had created a twiki page for WeeklyMeeting050503. The next week I accidently updated WeeklyMeeting050503 with notes from the 050510 meeting. I caught the mistake and created a new twiki page WeeklyMeeting050510. However, now the latest revision of WeeklyMeeting050503 contains my 050510 meeting notes. While I can look at the previous revision of WeeklyMeeting050503, I have not been able to figure out how get the previous revision to be the latest revision. Also, I can not figure out how to view the "source" for the previous revision. If I could get to the source of the previous revision, I could just edit the page and cut+paste the previous revision 050503 data (which has some complicated tables that I don't want to recreate manually).

How does one make a previous revision the latest revision or delete the latest revision?

-- RickTax - 07 Jul 2005

Answer

(moved question from the TWiki web to here)

Here are the steps anyone can do:

1. Look at the previous revision of the topic
2. Append &raw=on to the URL
3. Copy the text into the clipboard
4. Go to to top revision of the document
5. Edit the topic and replace its content with the clipboard content

An administrator can also roll back a revision. This should be used with care and must not be abused or users would lose the trust in the system. See specifics at the end of the twiki/lib/TWiki.cfg file.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Jul 2005