2013/8/25 Peter Wendorff <wendo...@uni-paderborn.de> > >> The revert tools just do a delete. > > > > I hope not! > > They roll back to the previous version of an object. I've just had to > > use that to fix a problem id created with a commit I had pushed. Revert > > rolled all the nodes back to their correct position. > > I fear, your hope is worthless. > Sure: After the revert the state of the map (without history) is the > same as before the reverted change, but if you revert a deletion the old > nodes aren't re-used, but created as new objects.
no, this is not true, the deleted objects ids are indeed reused and the same object is recreated (but a new version is created, the deletion remains of course in history), example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1098346508/history cheers, Martin
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