[wp-hackers] post_status == previous

[Jeff Minard]

David Chait wrote:
> Hmmm.  Interesting.  Revision tracking has been discussed before -- is 
> storing delta-diffs (like subversion) overly difficult as part of the save 
> process?  I know it's been a request previously... separate topic/thread?

Ahem, as long as we're at it...

   post_status = "previous"

Sort those old ones by last mod date (if we keep that...) and away you 
go. Making a diff on the fly to show changes would work. Storing the 
difference would work to I suppose, but seems a little odd to me -- I'd 
rather have the actual content in the "previous" version.

Of course, this kind of manipulation would:

1) Not be needed in the core -- how many people need revisioning? 
Honestly? I can see it being useful for a select few people (like us 
power users) who do it once, but for most "blog and go" users it would 
simply add cruft and one more thing to take up attention on an already 
bulging post page.

2) Totally screw up the post id counts.

To be honest, I'm very surprised that throughout these threads we 
haven't heard (or I haven't read) the "post id's on my blog must be one 
after the other" nuts going ape wild about what a post_status 
free-for-all flag is going to do to their preciously cultivated table.

Jeff