Option to limit number of saved entry versions/revisions

[angrybrad]

Created by: Matt Jones (matt@boxhead.io) on 2015/11/11 13:01:18 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 10

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When entry revisions are turn on for a section there is currently no method to cap/limit the number of revisions saved in the database so the entry versions table continues to grow indefinitely and therefore the database size also.

If there could be either a field in the section settings page to enter a number, or a general config setting to do the same that would be really useful.

[aaronbushnell]

Not sure if this is something on the docket for Craft 3.x but it would really help a handful of sites we have. One of our sites has ~900 MB in the entryversions table and it'd be nice to have some kind of garbage collection/limiting to shrink this down.

I know about @carlcs's awesome plugin to clear this out, but it'd be nice to selectively purge this area and handle it in a first-party way.

[aaronbushnell]

You all are awesome! Can't wait for 3.2! 💪

[brandonkelly]

Only took us 3.5 years :)

[aaronbushnell]

[Jones-S]

I am not super comfortable with reading the yii classes.
How would I set this new setting?

Like this?

config/general.php

return [
    '*' => [
        'maxRevisions' => 5
    ]
]

Because I had a post where I already had 12 drafts and I expected them to be cut down to 5.
Didn't happen though.

Or will it only happen for new drafts?

[brandonkelly]

@Jones-S Craft only enforces the setting when a new revision is created.