Tool Revision quircks causing problems with the tool updater.

[vvoois (vV)]

@esaruoho

I also don’t have the same tool in multiple places, and it shows 1 to 5 copies of the same tool wanting an update. When I update one of them, the rest disappear.

Then i don’t have any idea where it comes from.
I know some tools i had in the My_tools folder and in the tools parent and i sometimes changed the version number to see if the updater was working. But i had an older version in the tools parent so i noticed two copies that were aimed for being updated.

[Jonas (Djeroek)]

In other words it was vV’s fault

[vvoois (vV)]

@Bantai

The duplicate entries should be gone now. They were caused by the revision mechanism on the server. Only moderators such as vV were able to create revisions.

Why are only Moderators able to create revisions?
Or you mean by the “were” that this is also a past thing now?

the description of the revision field seemed pretty clear to me:
“An explanation of the additions or updates being made to help other authors understand your motivations.”

I didn’t knew i had to interpret it as “spamming existing users with loads of duplicate entries in the updater tool”

[vvoois (vV)]

@Bantai

A revision is more than that, it’s a copy of a whole page and its associated content and files. The revision description field is just the description for the revision. Just like a wiki.

That is not the association i made with it. I made it pure related to the file, not to the page.
Then i shall leave the revision info alone as it has no use for me in any other matter than just providing some more detailed logging for those interested.