Explore couchdb's versioning, what can we use to show the user?

[cesine]

CouchDB has built in versioning. We want users to be able to see what other users have changed when they sync their data. We want to show this to the user but it could be tricky and a whole 'nuther user interface. lets take a look soon at what couchdb can do, can we just add a button to show previous instances of that datum? how does it work... what is easiest and will be the most useful for the user.

[cesine]

can we take a quick brainstorm on this to see if there is anything we want to get in for Beta Testing?

[cesine]

posisbilities:

• create a comment with a link that will show the diff of the datum's changes each time it gets saved, this could get annoying but also give the users full tracking and ability to re-type what was there before someone changed it. so nothing automatic, but at least versioning in a way that users can get at it.
• show user diff between what is on iris couch and what they pushed (after they click the sync button), again just a way to see that it is being versionied, if htere is a mistake they could save the diff and manually go and fix the data (so nothing automated in the early versions as this would require too much programming)
• if the user clicks on the action in the activity feed they can see a fosilized diff of what that action was, this can be super handy. to "revert mistakes" by hand.

[trisapeace]

Right now, if a conflict occurs I'm not sure which one is winning on Pouch. It seems to change each time.

[cesine]

I'm re-opening htis issue so that our beta testers can give us their input on how they want to see the diffs (track changes).

[gretchenmcc]

I'm not quite sure what options there are for seeing differences, but I'm not terribly fond of the way wikipedia does it. The wiki track changes interface is pretty confusing/jumbled/detailed. So if there are other options that are clearer, I'd be interested in checking those out.