Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Admins and stewards/Merging files will include merging in file history too

Random proposal ►◄ Admins and stewards

Merging files will include merging in file history too

• Problem:

Today if we use the merging function on two files (two page in file-namespace) the merge include only the history of the description but not the history of the file itself (file history change only when we use "Upload a new version of this file")

• Who would benefit:

All users group who have the permission to merge (admins, bureaucrats)

• Proposed solution:

two possibility:

• • using the merge existing today to include the file merging
  • creat a new tool to merge pages.
• More comments:

• Phabricator tickets:

• Proposer: - yona B. (D) 09:26, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

• Translations: none yet

Discussion

Old image revisions are indexed by filename + timestamp so a merge would change links to old versions (and be generally a pain to implement as timestamps can conflict). Not a huge deal but this would be a lot easier to implement after phab:T28741 is fixed. --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 00:45, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support IKhitron (talk) 18:13, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - yona B. (D) 05:48, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Jenks24 (talk) 06:52, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support David1010 (talk) 07:35, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Mahir256 (talk) 08:30, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support β₁₆ - (talk) 10:14, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 12:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support TMg 12:54, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Consulnico (talk) 15:29, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 21:36, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Shizhao (talk) 02:49, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 10:24, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --g (talk) 00:23, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--L736E^{tell me} 07:54, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Veneziano (talk) 14:07, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Dromedar61 (talk) 20:29, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 16:12, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Haytham^Abulela 18:13, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Theklan (talk) 18:31, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 20:52, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Honischboy (talk) 21:22, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 12:05, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Петър Петров (talk) 14:59, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Termininja (talk) 15:21, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:26, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 15:31, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Waldir (talk) 10:18, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Talmoryair (talk) 17:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ronhjones (talk) 18:17, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Yeza (talk) 23:10, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --jdx ^Re: 18:50, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support — NickK (talk) 20:34, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support NaBUru38 (talk) 22:35, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ruslik (talk) 12:27, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Amanda (aka DQ) 18:20, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose Strange! What if files histories are rich and interleaving? There will be a mess after merge! --Infovarius (talk) 13:13, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--KRLS (talk) 14:11, 11 December 2017 (UTC)