bleak moon
I personally feel that a server owner/user can set the number of revisions or the age of revisions to help control the file size of worlds.
For example:
"I want to only have 100 revisions of this world"
or
"I only want revisions from the last 30 days"
bitter bloom
i think it was planned to have some sort of revision manager
queen dagger
This is a great idea. For now you can just save as a new world (i think? lmk if im wrong) as a workaround.
plucky notch
My recommendation for such a revision manager is for the limit to instead remove alternative revisions rather than oldest.
For example, say the limit is 5:
a
b
c
d
e
revision f & g are created:
a
c
e
f
g
(revision b and d were removed)
This would mean we retain historical saves should we want to use them, such as to compare the progression of a world, but less saves around the same period are kept as newer saves are created.
This would still require some memory to indicate where saves have been removed for the iteration code, but it would be very negligible and could be optimised.
bitter bloom
for that you can just manually remove revisions yourself based on date
which will not be prone to behaving unexpectedly
plucky notch
that would be a LOT of work for someone especially a server with frequent autosaves. It would be extremely valuable to have it automated.
We also have no ui to interact with revisions so there is no way you can expect it to be reasonable to manually do this, especially with no way to mass delete
bitter bloom
you just select everything except for the last or first in a day