Recovering older versions of your pages
All of your editing changes are stored in a chronological log on the server.
If you ever need to go back to a previous revision of a page to look something
up or perhaps grab a portion of content which no longer exists on the page,
there is a way to do that (although the interface to do this is a bit clumsy
at the moment).
First, you can view the raw FTX source for any FTX page by affixing the suffix
.ftx at the end of the URL. For example, if you are viewing the page
http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/foo/bar/gort
then you can also view that page’s FTX source by loading this URL:
http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/foo/bar/gort.ftx
Similarly, you can view any revision of an FTX page by affixing a $ suffix,
followed by the revision number, at the end of the URL, for example:
http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/foo/bar/gort$1
http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/foo/bar/gort$2
http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/foo/bar/gort$3
and so forth. If you omit the revision number at the end and affix only a
$ character, you’ll see a list of all the revisions, with timestamps and
hyperlinks to each revision.
OK, now you can put both the $ together with the .ftx and view the source
for an older page, for example:
http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/foo/bar/gort$1.ftx
http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/foo/bar/gort$2.ftx
http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/foo/bar/gort$3.ftx
Again, the interface for “going backward in time” like this is rather clumsy.
The good news is that it may improve later.
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