how can I restore some information about a node after it being deleted? how i get a reference for your version history?
2009/1/5 Tako Schotanus <[email protected]> > IMO this is because versioning is not seen as a method to go back to older > version for isolated files but as a way to get a "snapshot" of the state of > your entire workspace. If at some point you decide that you don't like the > changes that have been made to your repository and would like to go back to > the state it was in yesterday it would be very inconvenient if it would be > impossible to recuperate the deleted information that existed yesterday. > > I understand the need to "physically" delete information, for example to > free up the space it uses, but it should be an exceptional operation > instead > of the norm and has nothing to do with versioning. > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 19:19, Diego Marin Santos <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > I've read on internet a jackrabbit user saying the following: > > "*AFAIK the version storage was not intended to be removed completely by > ** > > the JCR spec, since one idea of versioning is to be able to recover > > deleted nodes. That's why it's not entirely possible to delete all > > things inside the versioning storage (let's say this use case was not > > **considered*)." > > I don't agree because in my opinion versioning makes sense when we wanna > > modify a file and may wanna restore the previous file versions in the > > future. > > When we delete a file, we don't think of restoring previous file > versions. > > Moreover, deleting a node(representing a file) we won't get a reference > for > > your version history, then why should we keep the version history of this > > node? > > >
