[Expo-tech] "Edit this page"

[Philip Sargent (Gmail)]

hg had just got into a mess that it took me a while to work out how to fix
without losing his edits. There were merge clashes it could not resolve
automatically because the same file (cavelink) had been changed by two
people. The expo laptop had local changes not merged in  (as well as ones
it had not downloaded) as well as the "edit this page" which was on the
server, but not the same as the served pages as hg update had not been done.

Just a general lack of version hygiene piled up.

On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 22:04, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> On 2019-07-08 19:36 +0100, Philip Sargent (Gmail) wrote:
> > I have just spent an hour rescuing the work that Andrew did onediting the
> > cavelink documentation because he used Edit This Page and it all crashed
> > horribly - and the expo laptop was 17 steps out of date re hg.
>
> Those are two separate things. Possibly interacting.
> What does 'crashed horribly' actually mean?
>
> > I tried logging out of troggle but the "Edit this page" still appears on
> every
> > menu, andI ponly just stopped Becka using it.
>
> I'm not sure you should it's there because people like it, and understand
> it.
>
> > As a matter of urgency, can we turn this off in Troggle? Please?
>
> I think you are overreacting. But if you are happy to teach everyone
> to use git and an editor instead then yes we could get rid of it. But
> it's there because many years of trying to teach everyone just that
> (hg+editor) got increasingly hard work because they all want a wiki
> and won't install+setup ssh+tortoise and don't understand what 'check
> out a repository' means.
>
> Martin wrote that code, so I don't know where it is, but try searching
> for it in the troggle code or templates, then if you just remove it
> from the html it'll effeetively be disabled even though the code/URL
> would still work.
>
> Wookey
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