Questions tagged [revision-history]
For questions about the revision history presented on a post with more than one revision.
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Clicking 'Edit' on a revision on a Staging Ground post edits latest revision, not the selected revision [duplicate]
Normally, you are able to click the "Edit" link on a revision in the revision history of a post, next to "Rollback" and "Link".
This allows you to edit that specific ...
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Is there some view of question history that can help explain (to myself!) why I answered this question?
About 4 years ago I submitted this answer to a question. It got upvoted recently so I took a look at it. I was really surprised to see that my answer was posted more than a year after the highest-...
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Other undelete votes are not properly counted/displayed when a post owner self-undeletes a post
Yesterday I cast an undelete vote on an answer. This undelete vote is shown in the timeline, although it is unattributed so normal users can't tell whether it was an undelete vote by the post owner or ...
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Tags on a question don't match its revision history [duplicate]
I saw a question today that seemed to be purely about C++, but was tagged Kotlin:
This was weird, so I decided to check the revision history to see when and why that tag was added. But... the ...
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"List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege" notice is misleading
On closed questions, this message is shown to users with the close/reopen votes privilege (except for the asker):
The list of close voters, however, is viewable by anyone, including anonymous users. ...
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When viewing a question's edit history that includes tag edits, the opacity is broken when hovering over a tag
I noticed that when you view the edit history of a question with tag edits and hover over a tag that the opacity of the popup is broken.
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Is it possible to flag a revision of a tag in order to get some clarification/guidance?
I edited one tag in Stack Overflow and a moderator reverted it to be blank (first commit).
Tag is hpcc and the edit is this one: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/39416279/revisions
I would like to get ...
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Full screen snippets has an incorrect z-index in post revisions
Example post with a snippet https://stackoverflow.com/posts/71191950/revisions
Click "Run code snippet" and then click the "Full page" link
The top bar, side bar, and post ...
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Missing edit histories on old questions?
I just came across the question Difference between singleton methods from 2012.
As the answers and the "Edit:" note in the question clearly show, the question has been edited to fix a typo ...
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Editing a revision within the grace period of the revision should update the revision description for the edit if changed
Here is an answer I just ran into this with, thought I could squeeze an edit or two in before the 5 minute marker but failed to do. I attempted to modify the revision message to be more clear as to ...
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Can the bounty notice custom message be made available in the question history and/or in the awarded bounty tooltip?
The use case is recovering bounty context.
For example, assume a user awards bounties for answers that have "I like turtles" in it.
Or a user provides more context in the bounty notice, like ...
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Server error viewing revision history or timeline of a specific post
Looking at the revision history or timeline of: Tally counter returns blank page results in the generic server error message:
Oops! Something Bad Happened!
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This post was also pushed into the ...
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Remove duplicate updates from the edit history in the queue
I didn't find a suitable title but here is a screenshot to illustrate:
The strange numbers you see there (from 1817792 - to 1817792,4502633) is my duplicate list edit and I don't think it's relevant ...
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The revision history does not show the latest content correctly
In this answer, I updated the name of the class from Testing to SpellCheck, but the revision history, while looking it on inline mode, shows it as TestingSpellCheck.
It's shown correctly when using ...
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Link to Collective in post revisions is broken
I noticed the new "Answer Recommended by" in an answer:
The link to Google Cloud collective works fine in the post.
Then I went to the post revisions, and in there the link is broken, ...
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