Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list
> On 2022-10-01 at 18:25, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> >> For example: as soon as you've had more than one change in the
> >> entire history of the document, you need to start considering what
> >> the previous version against which you're showing differences is.
> >> If you try to do it against all of them, it very quickly becomes
> >> unwieldy; if you try to do
> >
> > For me the better option is to point to a version of the file with
> > all its VCS history so people can see what's been changed when.
>
> Yes, but for a tiny and rarely-updated document like this that's even
> *more* clearly overkill.
If the document were maintained using technology such as a wiki (with
restricted edit permissions) then the wiki underpinnings would maintain
the edit history automatically. A link to the wiki page and a statement
as to whether there were any recent changes would then be sufficient, I
think.
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