On the entity form of revisionable entities, make "create new revision" and "revision log" configurable

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Created on 30 March 2016, about 9 years ago

Updated 31 August 2023, over 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

Following on from 📌 Enable revisions by default Fixed we should remove this option from the node form altogether, for the following reasons:

The behaviour of sometimes saving a new revision, and sometimes overwriting the current revision, has caused myriad data loss bugs in contrib, such as #1807460: Field collection doesn't play nice with workbench moderation (patch) → . I had to write an entire contrib module to stop workflow modules from exploding all over the place in 7.x - see https://www.drupal.org/project/drafty → / #2376839: Rewrite to use the new Drafty module → / #2379071: Use drafty module for draft revision handling → . Removing the option from the form would be a small step towards standardising the code flow overall.
The decision to save new revisions or not is a site building or developer issue, not a content author one. Since entity revisions are configurable now via code, they can be set on or off at the entity level.
It adds clutter to the node form, and an extra decision for people to take that's not related to the actual task they're doing
It could be added back from contrib if someone really wanted it

Proposed resolution

Remove the checkbox.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

📌 Task

Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

Node system →

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Makes Drupal easier to use. Preferred over UX, D7UX, etc.

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Comment over 1 year ago →
🇫🇮Finland lauriii Finland
Looks like something has changed and the "Create new revision" is now visible even for users who don't have the administer nodes permission. Filed issue for that: 🐛 "Create new revision" is overridable regardless of permissions Needs review .
Comment 10 months ago →
🇮🇹Italy kopeboy Milan
Yeah I can confirm. And admin user always see textarea, while a normal user, when the default to create a revision is disabled on the node type, will see the checkbox but not the textarea after enabling it 😅 Drupal 10.3.0-rc1
Comment 9 months ago →
🇵🇪Peru marvil07
For the issue summary update see #13, #14, #21 and #25.
Status changed to Active 6 days ago1:11am 31 March 2025
Comment 6 days ago →
🇦🇺Australia acbramley
Hiding patches and moving back to Active as the changes there don't line up with what is being discussed in comments. It seems like the consensus landed on having this configurable per entity type (and maybe bundle)? But we still need an IS update.

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