From 87c84515e96ac991a67571b26d90a4f2ed58c757 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:03:39 -0500 Subject: idea --- doc/todo/conflict_free_comment_merges.mdwn | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/conflict_free_comment_merges.mdwn (limited to 'doc/todo') diff --git a/doc/todo/conflict_free_comment_merges.mdwn b/doc/todo/conflict_free_comment_merges.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e0e8acb34 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/conflict_free_comment_merges.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Currently, new comments are named with an incrementing ID (comment_N). So +if a wiki has multiple disconnected servers, and comments are made to the +same page on both, merging is guaranteed to result in conflicts. + +I propose avoiding such merge problems by naming a comment with a sha1sum +of its (full) content. Keep the incrementing ID too, so there is an +-ordering. And so duplicate comments are allowed..) +So, "comment_N_SHA1". + +Note: The comment body will need to use meta title in the case where no +title is specified, to retain the current behavior of the default title +being "comment N". + +What do you think [[smcv]]? --[[Joey]] -- cgit v1.2.3