On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 14:04 +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > Hi, > > Someone (identified as "MatthewSimoneau") renamed > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm > > to > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC%20Compile%20Farm%20Project > > Which of course broke all the web links to this project > accumulated since 2005... > > The problem is that I'm unable to use the "Rename" wiki function > to go back to the original name "CompileFarm": it says the page "already > exists". I ended up creating a new dummy "CompileFarm" page with > a link to the new one, but if someone has a way to make > Rename back to the original name work I'm interested (I can do a > bruteforce copy/paste but then we'll loose the edit history).
After reviewing the moinmoin (many) bug pages, it looks like you can't rename back to the original name, the only way out is the copy/paste and loosing history: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs/RenamePageThatWasPreviouslyPreviewed?highlight=(rename) <<Discussion This is a somewhat obscure trigger, but no less valid. There is a much more common way to hit this problem, which I'm pretty sure has the same root cause. Just wanted to offer it as another thing to consider: 1. User renames "foo" to "bar" because it seems like a better name 2. User discovers that "foo" was the best name after all. 3. User tries to simply rename "bar" back to "foo", but is denied with a message saying that "foo" already exists so it can't rename 4. Look at the page "foo", and it appears to not exist, and looking at the history shows no edits. (This is because the history moved with the page when it got renamed the first time. The only workaround I could come up with was to create a new page "foo", and copy-paste the contents from "bar", then delete "bar". The problem with this is that all of foo's history is sitting over at the deleted page bar. Will this be fixed as part of the 1.6 changes? -- SteveDavison 2007-09-12 13:50:15 >> So I've done the copy/paste and sorry for the noise. Laurent
