Problem/Motivation

I know this may be minor, but if the revisions list gets too long you can't really do a comparison if the revision you're trying to compare exists on another page.

Steps to reproduce

Using a page with a lot of revisions, select current revision. Go to the next page and select another revision. A message will return "Select two revisions to compare".

Proposed resolution

This is a tricky one. Not sure if the value of one should be stored temporarily or...something else?

Remaining tasks

I'm wondering if I'm overthinking this and/or how often this happens?

Comments

anthonyroundtree created an issue.

uri_frazier’s picture

uri_frazier
he/him
Primary language English
Location Portland, Oregon
commented

I recently was informed that in diff.settings.yml there is the revision_pager_limit setting. When set to zero, it will avoid the pager/AJAX entirely and just display all revisions on one page.

While testing it, I found that it works just fine this way and isn't unwieldy despite a large number of listed revisions.
Alternative Solution/Workaround: revision_pager_limit: 0

charles belov’s picture

charles belov
he/him
Primary language English
Location San Francisco, CA, US
commented

@anthonyroundtree: I don't believe that you were overthinking this. I just encountered the problem, leading me to this issue. Some pages are very busy and it would be good to be able to audit changes in them. While the usual use case would be to find when a particular change happened, it still is currently not possible to compare the last revision on one page to the first revision on the next page. If that's when the change happened, it would be tedious to try to reconstruct the issue without being able to compare across revision pages.

@uri_frazier: Thank you for the workaround. My one concern would be whether it would create site performance issues on a page which was exceptionally active, say, was updated weekly or even daily over the course of a year. While that's an edge case, we did have such an issue on our Drupal 7 site with a prominent page.