[Zope] Versions

[Phil Harris]

Cool! thanks Anthony.
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
To: Phil Harris <phil@philh.org>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Versions


> >>> "Phil Harris" wrote
> > Versions, wass all dat about den?
> > How the hell, once you start working in a version, do you see the
contents
> > of that version without saving the work done in that version.
>
> Tell someone to go to the url .../versionobj/enter
>
> This will set a cookie.
> Then when they view the website, they will see the website that's in the
> version.
>
> they should go to .../versionobj/leave
>
> Some other miscellaneous notes on Versions...
>
> The behaviour of Versions is something like using RCS with everyone
> checking out the code into a different workspace. That is, only one
> person can be modifying any particular object at a time. You can also
> only be looking at, or working in, one Version at a time.
>
> A couple of questions I have:
>
> Is it possible to get a list of all objects modified in a Version?
> Is it possible to revert changes for a particular object only, rather
> than save/discard all changes for a Version?
>
> On a vaguely related note, has anyone thought about doing something
> with XML Export files and diff? It would be kinda cool to be able to
> take 2 daily XML export files, and produce a tree structure listing
> changed objects...
>
> Anthony