Question

I recently upgraded from an old version of TWiki (2003 vintage) to 4.0.4. I have pretty much everything working properly, except that TWiki is no longer tracking the version history for attachments.

For old attachments (pre-upgrade), new versions are not being added to the version history list. For new attachments, the list is empty (only the table heading is displayed). I noticed that for new entries a ,v is created, but it is very small (81 bytes).

Environment

-- CameronSmith - 21 Dec 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

The ,v is the version history those files. You need to manually edit those files unless you can find a script to do this for you.

-- SteveStark - 23 Dec 2006

On existing attachments: Make sure that the RCS lock is removed. See TWikiUpgradeGuide.

On new attachments: 81 bytes is too small, it indicates a corrupt repository file. Check the arguments to the ci rcs command in configure.

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Dec 2006

I am using RCS 5.7. The RCS commands should be the defaults, although they may have been inherited from the version that I upgraded from (2003). Here are several of them:

{RCS}{initTextCmd} /usr/bin/rcs  -i -t-none -ko %FILENAME|F%
{RCS}{initBinaryCmd} /usr/bin/rcs  -i -t-none -kb %FILENAME|F%
{RCS}{ciCmd} /usr/bin/ci  -q -l -m"%COMMENT%" -t-none -w"CameronSmith" %FILENAME%

I don't have any problems with text TWiki pages, only attachments. I wonder if this could be an issue with binary files?

Here's the contents of one of the 81 byte ,v files. They all look the same.

head    ;
access;
symbols;
locks; strict;
comment @# @;
expand  @b@;



desc
@none
@

-- CameronSmith - 02 Jan 2007

Good news - I updated the ciCmd and ciDateCmd to the defaults in 4.0.4 and the repository files are now being created correctly.

Specifically, the commands should be:

{RCS}{ciCmd} /usr/bin/ci  -q -l -m%COMMENT|U% -t-none -w%USERNAME|S% -u %FILENAME|F%
{RCS}{ciDateCmd} /usr/bin/ci -l  -q -mnone -t-none -d%DATE|D% -u -w%USERNAME|S% %FILENAME|F%

-- CameronSmith - 02 Jan 2007