[pmwiki-users] page history question

[Sandy]

The Editor wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Hans <design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
>> Often someone opened a page for editing,
>> did no changes, and saved it again.
>> This appears as an empty entry in the page history,
>> and also on the RecentChanges page.
>> Can it be configured that it will not appear in the page
>> history and in RecentChanges and AllRecentChanges?
>> Can this be done on pmwiki.org?
>>
>> Often I check a page because there is a RecentChanges entry,
>> only to find that there is no change at all, but an empty
>> page history entry. I'd like to avoid these checks.
>>
>> Or is something else going on?
> 
> 
> I'm guessing there are changes in the attributes, particularly the
> lastmodified field, and maybe author. Probably these changes prompt
> the entry. But it would be good I suppose if PmWiki could avoid
> recording these changes. Unless there's cases where a user might want
> to "touch" a file for some reason... But even then, perhaps PmWiki
> could skip the recent changes entry. I dunno, just thinking out loud.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan

I can see some admins wanting to be notified if those attributes are 
changed. So, if that's what triggered the change, maybe those details 
should be added to the history. May want to be a bit vague or limit full 
details by view level. E.g., Password changes are important to the 
admin, not the average viewer.

Sandy