Puzzled a bit :-/

> There is no explicit interface for reverting edits. Most of us use `git revert`. --[[Joey]]

>> That's a blow; I was planning on appointing no techies to keep law and order on our pages :-/ Is there a plugin or at least a plan to add such a 'in demand' feature?

>>> A lot of things complicate adding that feature to the web interface.
>>>
>>> First, ikiwiki happily uses whatever the VCS's best of breed web
>>> history interface is. (ie, viewvcs, gitweb). To allow reverting
>>> past the bottom of the RecentChanges page, it would need to have its 
>>> own history browser. Not sure I want to go there.
>>>
>>> And the mechanics of handling reverting can quickly get complex. 
>>> Web reverting should only allow users to revert things they can edit,
>>> but reverting a whole commit in git might touch multiple files.
>>> Some files may not be editable over the web at all. (The
>>> [[tips/untrusted_git_push]] also has to deal with those issues.)
>>> Finally, a revert can fail with a conflict. The revert could touch 
>>> multiple files, and multiple ones could conflict. The conflict may
>>> involve non-page files that can't be diffed. So an interface for
>>> resolving such a conflict could be hard.
>>> 
>>> Probably web-based reverting would need to be limited to reverting 
>>> single file changes, not whole commits, and not having very good
>>> conflict handling. And maybe only being accessible for changes
>>> still visible on RecentChanges. With those limitations, it's certianly
>>> doable (as a plugin even), but given how excellent `git revert` is in
>>> comparison, I have not had a real desire to do so. --[[Joey]]

>>>> Web edits are single-file anyway, so I wouldn't expect web reverts
>>>> to handle the multi-file case. OTOH, I've sometimes wished ikiwiki
>>>> had its own history browser (somewhere down my todo list). --[[schmonz]]

>>>> Yup, having a possibility to revert a single file would suffice.

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Perer Gammie and I are working on reversion over at [[todo/web_reversion]].
--[[Joey]]