[pmwiki-users] direct editing wiki file ?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:25:43AM -0400, Radu wrote:
> What impact would that have on the history? Specifically, on rolling back 
> changes.

Oh... yeah.  Editing the wiki.d/ files directly means  you lose the
ability to restore earlier versions of the page prior to such edits.

Pm


> At 11:13 AM 5/14/2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 04:57:00PM +0200, malexism (f) wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> is there pros & cons of direct editing pmwiki files in the wiki.d
> >> directory ? For example making a batch search/replace with a text
> >> editor... I try on one file only, it seems ok.
> >
> >If you end up changing/adding links, then some of the cross-references
> >may not be correct (e.g., (:pagelist link=...:) ).  But other than
> >that it's generally safe.
> 
> Cheers,
> Radu
> (www.monicsoft.net) 
> 
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