SID-01690: How to limit revisions

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.1	Perl version:	5.10.1
Category:	CategoryVersionControl	Server OS:	Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid LTS	Last update:	13 years ago

Hi,

I had setup twiki based homepage. However am concerned with the number of revisions. Considering few hundred users, uploading many versions of same document, very soon machine may run out of disk space. Hence is it possible to limit revisions and delete old versions(let us say a maximum of 5 revisions and deleting oldest everytime) ?

PS: I could not find any parameter to limit revisions, though I saw a thread from Peter about limiting number of revisions, am I missing some basics?

Thanks, Raghu

-- TWiki Guest - 2013-04-29

Discussion and Answer

Raghu: Please register using your real first name and last name, also for the WikiName.

It is not possible to remove older revisions of topics or attachments. I would not worry about topic revisions. Some topics on TWiki.org have over 10,000 revisions. Wiki text uses very little space.

On the other hand, attachments can occupy a lot of space. Disk is cheap though. If you are concerned about attachment revisions you could simply remove the file.ext,v files. You will lose all revision info on those attachments thought.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-04-29

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