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rah_post_versions: Revision control for articles, forms and pages
Rah_post_versions brings revision control to Textpattern backends. The plugin stores old versions and changes made to articles, forms, pages, styles, categories and site preferences.
I took some snapshots of the interface. Click the images to enlarge (each image weights about 1080×560px/30KB):
The main panel, shows list of items, grouped changes
List of changes made to an item
Viewing a change
Preferences panel
Filtering opitons
Reposting a change (stylesheet named test); shows a message
Descriped in few words, rah_post_versions gives:
- The revision browser with the interface shown above.
- Able to view and go back to old versions of articles, forms and pages.
- Able to track modifications and see whats been send to the server.
- The plugins weights 32 KB with around 1300 lines of code.
- Requires TXP 4.0.7 or newer.
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Are you some kind of mind reader? The technology behind this awesome beastie is exactly the sort of thing I think we need for a mysterious project which I’ll mail you about later.
Gonna download this sucker and take it to meet my mum. You rock.
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Bloke wrote:
Are you some kind of mind reader?
Noooo, and most definitely not a stalker who saw that note on your table last monday. Good pancakes, btw… not that I ate any. Moving on…
The technology behind this awesome beastie is exactly the sort of thing I think we need for a mysterious project which I’ll mail you about later.
Mysterious mail about mysterious project. I like it. I will read it carefully in my mysterious lair as soon it drops into my mysterious email box.
Gonna download this sucker and take it to meet my mum. You rock.
Means a lot coming from you; my plugin meets your mum. Odd first date, atleast but a movie playing next to the browser window.
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This is exciting. Nice!
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Waaaaaaa! This sounds very nice… I’ll take it out for a spin soon! Thanks Gocom.
Very, very curious what the Bloke sweatshop is up to.
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This looks amazing. Great work Gocom!
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mmmmmmmmazing!
Can you provide more details about how to get it to track items other than articles?
I assume by adding ‘css:edit, css:save’ etc to the preferences.
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#8 2010-06-07 18:37:16
- candyman
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Re: rah_post_versions: Revision control for articles, forms and pages
Hat off.
The various versions of the stored articles can be deleted or managed in any way?
I mean: can I delete versions with minimal changes and keep only those with significant progress?
Last edited by candyman (2010-06-07 18:39:03)
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Thank you all :-)
mrdale wrote:
Can you provide more details about how to get it to track items other than articles?
Thank you for asking, saved us from a lot of trouble :-) I did forget to add the all pages to the initial installer. I released version 0.2 that will add more monitored pages to the preferences during the install. The change won’t effect current users as you have already installed the beast.
All current users can use following code in the monitored pages field:
article:edit, article:create, article:publish, article:save, page:page_create, page:page_edit, page:page_save, form:form_create, form:form_edit, form:form_save, prefs:prefs_save, prefs:advanced_prefs_save, category:cat_article_create, category:cat_image_create, category:cat_file_create, category:cat_link_create, category:cat_article_save, category:cat_image_save, category:cat_file_save, category:cat_link_save, section:section_create, section:section_save, link:link_post, link:link_save, discuss:discuss_save, image:image_save, file:file_save, css:css_saveThis will add more pages to the monitored list. Sorry for the inconvenience guys and ladies.
candyman wrote:
The various versions of the stored articles can be deleted or managed in any way?
Individual changes can be deleted with the list view’s multiedit function.
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looks amazing (not to say awesome). I can think of one or two places where this would come in handy. Kudos!
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haha wow, definitetely gonna use this :D
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! Brilliant !
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This looks really incredible – but may I ask what is the major difference (apart from the UI) between this and cnk_versioning? Let me preface the question with the comment that I have never used cnk_versioning…
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Hi Jonathan,
let me try to ask your question:
- the “_versioning” chunk on cnk_versioning name is a bit missleading. cnk_versioning doesn’t do any kind of versioning of pages/forms/css. What it does is to enable the possibility of working with css/forms/pages directly as files on the filesystem. Thus, it enables you to use VCS, like SVN, Mercurial, Git, etc, to keep those files versioned.
cnk_versioning should have been named something like cnk_put_forms_pages_and_css_as_files_in_a_folder_and_let_me_work_with_a_vcs.
Of course, also, it doesn’t do any kind of article versioning, which rah_post_versions claims to do. - on the other hand, rah_post_versions doesn’t enable the possibility of working with a VCS, as it keeps all the versioned stuff directly on the database. And it also has article versioning built-in, which will make it a must-have tool in any TXP toolbelt.
Let’s wait and see if Gocom agrees with the above answer.
I’ll try to give an spin to rah_post_versions and check how it integrates with cnk_versioning. I mean, I will be probably disabling all rah_post_versions magic regarding forms/pages/css, but keep it enabled for articles.
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#15 2010-06-08 16:59:16
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Re: rah_post_versions: Revision control for articles, forms and pages
Thanks Gocom ! Excactly what I need since I switch from ExpressionEngine !!!
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