[Pmwiki-users] Re: Restore failed after spam attack on wiki.lyx.org

[Patrick R. Michaud]

> > > This is however a serious drawback IMO, that the restore operation can 
> > > fail...
> > 
> > Yeah, it seems to be an issue with diff(1)/patch(1) not being quite
> > as robust as we might like.  The phpdiff.php script (distributed since
> > 1.0.11, default in PmWiki 2) seems to actually work more reliably.
> 
> It really is something that *must* work I think... especially in a 
> situation like this where a page was attacked by spam.

I agree totally -- this is one of the several big reasons I went ahead 
and brought phpdiff.php into the distribution.  Phpdiff.php should work
just fine.

Pm