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Kevin Jahns
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The collaboration server's activity and changeset routes are opened to the browser, so a document's editing history can be read from where it actually lives now. What a user may see of it is bounded to the moment they were given access to the document: joining a document that has been written for a year does not hand them the year. That rule is not new. It is the one the version endpoints have always applied - "only those created after the user got access to the document" - and the date is the same one: the earliest access the user holds on the document or on any of its ancestors, so sharing a folder shares its subtree from that moment. It was computed twice in the backend, differently, and exposed nowhere. It is now a single annotation, user_access_since, that the version endpoints and the collaboration server both read, the latter through the document detail response it already fetches to authorize a connection. The bound is applied server-side and silently: a client asks for whatever range it likes and receives only its own share, so there is no bound for it to get wrong and none it can widen. It is a stored date rather than a wall-clock-relative one, which is what keeps it stable across a websocket re-check, and it is never zero - the one value that would also unlock a full-history connection. A reader who reaches a document through its link alone holds no access and so has no date to bound a history with. They get none, which is why the backend has always refused them their versions. rollback and prune stay refused to everyone: restoring a version is a separate decision. Signed-off-by: Kevin Jahns <kevin.jahns@protonmail.com>
Docs Documentation
Welcome to the official documentation for Docs.
This documentation is organized by topic and audience. Use the section below to quickly find what you are looking for.
Table of Contents
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Getting started
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Configuration
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Architecture & design
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Usage & operations
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Project & product
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Assets