Author: lapo
Description:
Last version if the one most accessed, the previous ones are less access as they
are more old.
This was RCS's programmers rationale and it worked for years and years for them,
and for CVS too (which uses RCS format, in fact).
Storing only the last version and then "diff to last" for each old revision is:
a. space-savvy
b. quite efficient as the page viewed most of the times is available with no
diffing and patching at all
c. space-savvy
d. space-savvy
e. space-savvi
f. compatible with any backend, requiring only to add a record with the new data
and only modifying the last record (replacing the full text with the "to latest"
diff), all the old records are left alone as they are
When I'll have finished my university thesis I could help implementing it
(either here, if the idea is liked, or in a different wiki engine, I really feel
"bad" to add a single line to a 1000-lines article and know to have "wasted" 999
lines of space ^_^)
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement