SID-00755: How to delete previous revisions of the twiki page???

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I want to delete some previous revisions of a Twiki page created by me on twiki.org.

How to do that???

-- PraphullKumar - 2010-02-15

Discussion and Answer

You would have to get in the RCS version history itself, in other words, you probably don't have authorization.

To wipe out all of a topic's history, you can delete its .txt,v file, or simply delete the topic then recreate it with the same name and the latest content.

-- SeanCMorgan - 2010-02-16

If I delete its .txt.v file on my twiki, I'll delete the previous revisions but where will the future revisions be stored if the corresponding .txt.v file is deleted? I think nowhere. Do you know different ways in order to delete previous revisions?

-- MaurizioAmodei - 2010-11-21

If you want to roll back the top revision you as an admin can use the cmd=delRev parameter to the edit script (see TWikiScripts). This will reduce the topic revisions by one, e.g. get rid of the top revision. This is useful to get rid of spam on public sites, but I do not recommend using it on internal TWikis in order not to erode trust in the system.

If you delete the .txt,v file you remove all history of the topic. Once someone saves that topic, rev 2 is created -- rev 1 is the original topic text.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-11-22

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