(Since everyone else was posting discussions I just had to join the flock. woo. Also I'm a dirty xp whore)

Inspired by several recent discussions and being unable to find anything on this subject before (I'm sure it's there but I have no idea what search terms I should have used, but I couldn't find any) I wanted to ask, why doesn't perlmonks do so?

Just spending 5 minutes thinking about it, I would think the easiest way to add this would be special "markup" in the node body, since I assume the body is stored as a chunk in the database someplace, you would simply have the multiple revisions delimited by something, then by default the 'get node' func would only return the last one, but if you pass it a param it would return a different chunk. Then whenever an edit was 'submitted' it would jsut tack another section on to the end. This obviously isn't an optimal solution of course, but it seems simple enough to be easily integrated in to the current perlmonk setup without adding undue server strain/load.

Theres my sort of thought out ideas on implementation, so what are the other reasons for not having it? Social ones? A technical one I'm overlooking?

In reply to Storing node revision history by BUU

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