When I click
edit on a XWiki page and "Save and View" or "Save and
Continue", without making any changes, a new version number is
created. This is contrary to existing conventions in SVN, which will
intelligently check whether there are any modifications that would
warrant a new version number. Is this a fundamental different view of
the XWiki development team or is it a technical difficulty or simply
something that has not been implemented yet?
It's just not implemented yet. I have wanted to fix this for a long
time but have never actually taken the time to do it. I'd like this
too.
Also, it would be nice to prevent the creation of a new version on
multiple edits within a short time. These are the typical edits when
you forgot something, spotted a misspelled word, just wanted to see if
everything looked fine in saved view etc... A good rule is creating
only one new version for all the edits one user made within the same
hour. It would make revision history cleaner and more usable.