Re: CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Bernd Helmle" <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CommitFest Wiki page annoyance
Date: 2008-04-22 17:49:42
Message-ID: 87mynlu6dl.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> I had a look into the history on the CommitFest page. It looks like
> Alvaro unintentionally clobbered the previous five edits, which went
> back about four hours. I've restored those changes now, but it is
> definitely worrying that such a drastic regression could occur.
>
> The only way I can conceive of this happening is that Alvaro was
> making his edits on a *very* old copy of the edit page.

I accidentally did the same thing to Tom a while back. In that case I had
explicitly pulled up an old version of the page to copy out part of it. I
believe what then happened is I accidentally pasted the part I was recovering
back into that same old version rather than the current one and hit save.

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Gregory Stark
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