Revision History¶
Revision History¶
Documents will be ingested in batches which will be given a revision index. This provides a common language for describing complex validations on sets of documents.
Revisions can be thought of as commits in a linear git history, thus looking at a revision includes all content from previous revisions.
Revision Diffing¶
By maintaining a linear history of all the documents in each revision, Deckhand is able to diff different revisions together to report what has changed across revisions, allowing external services to determine whether the Deckhand configuration undergone any changes since the service last queried the Deckhand API.
The revision difference is calculated by comparing the overall difference
across all the documents in the buckets associated with the two revisions that
are diffed. For example, if a bucket shared between two revisions contains two
documents, and between the first revision and the second revision, if only
one of those two documents has been modified, the bucket itself is tagged
as modified
. For more information about revision diffing, please reference
the Deckhand API Documentation.
Revision DeepDiffing¶
Revision DeepDiffing is an extended version of existing revision diff api.
When any bucket state gets changed to modified
, It shows deep difference
between revisions. DeepDiffing resultset will consist of document_added
,
document_deleted
and document_changed
count and details.
For more information about revision deepdiffing, please reference the Deckhand API Documentation.
Revision Rollback¶
As all the changes to documents are maintained via revisions, it is possible to
rollback the latest revision in Deckhand to a prior revision. This behavior can
be loosely compared to a git rebase
in which it is possible to squash the
latest revision in order to go back to the previous revision. This behavior is
useful for undoing accidental changes and returning to a stable internal
configuration.