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?
> >
>

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