WIKI-T...TO-DATE(1p)

💖 WIKI-T...TO-DATE(1p) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, section 1p, for the tool wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date. it's giving time machine energy and i'm obsessed. 🕰️✨

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✨ NAME ✨

wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date — Revert the state of a Wiki::Toolkit instance to an earlier point in time.

like, literally. you point it at a date and it rewinds your wiki to how it looked back then. no cap. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

# Removes any changes made to a Wiki::Toolkit instance since a given date
#  (and optionally time), restoring it to the state at that point.

wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date --type postgres
         --name mywiki \
         --user wiki  \
         --pass wiki \
         --host 'db.example.com' \
         --port 1234 \
         --date 2007-01-05 \
         --time 11:23:21

look at that glow-up of a command line. she's organized, she's got backslashes, she's ready. 💅

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so the way this works: it takes three mandatory arguments, and then five optional ones. periodt.

🎀 the mandatory ones (you HAVE to give these, no skips)

• type — The database type. Should be one of 'postgres', 'mysql' and 'sqlite'. those are your three options, bestie, pick one. 🌈
• name — The database name. yep, just the name of the database. iconic. 💜
• date — The date to revert the state back to, in the format YYYY-MM-DD. this is the whole point of the tool, so like, don't forget it. 🗓️

💖 the optional ones (slay, you get choices)

• time — The time (on the specified date) to revert the state back to, in the format hh:mm:ss. If not specified, will use midnight. so if you don't say anything, it's midnight o'clock, Cinderella style. 🕛
• user — The user that connects to the database. It must have permission to create and drop tables in the database. yes this is important — if that user can't create and drop tables, this is not gonna go how you want. 👀
• pass — The user's database password. keep it secret, keep it safe. 🙈
• host — The hostname of the machine the database server is running on (omit for local databases). local bestie? just don't include it. remote bestie? include it. 💻
• port — The port number that the database server is expecting connections to. the lil doorway number. 🚪

lowkey reminder: this tool removes any changes made to a Wiki::Toolkit instance since a given date (and optionally time), restoring it to the state at that point. so it's a real revert, not a "haha what if" revert. make sure that's what you actually want before you send it. 💀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Nick Burch. king behavior, honestly. 👑

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🫶 COPYRIGHT 🫶

     Copyright (C) 2006 Nick Burch.  All Rights Reserved.

This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

free software, same terms as Perl itself, we love a generous license moment. 🌸

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Wiki::Toolkit

go read that one too, it's the main character and this is its little time-travel sidekick. ✨

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it. 🎀

this was from perl v5.32.0, dated 2021-01-04, and it lives under the WIKI-T...TO-DATE(1p) name. mwah. 💋🦋