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0 pointsdragonfax5y ago0 comments

The git thing is only for on-prem.

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mst5y ago

Currently. Elsewhere in this thread the founder said they're aiming to make it available in the cloud as well.

I'd be a lot more comfortable playing with retool once that happens myself, might, by "only ... so far" appears to be the situaiton.

joshribakoff5y ago

They still can put git or something basic diffing logic in their SaaS backend and surface some simple GUI, I have done this before just by selecting the last entry, diffing it, and inserting a newer entry that subsumed the old database entry

haxton5y ago

Hi! I'm an engineer here at Retool. I actually did build just this (a basic diffing logic tool) not long ago. It's currently behind a beta flag, but I opened a PR up this morning to get this to ship to production.

If you're a Retool user you can find it under the Beta section in your org settings. And yes, this is available on our cloud offering

joshribakoff5y ago

Nice. Yeah you guys have tried to recruit me more than once or twice ;) one thing I would strongly suggest as you roll it out is setting a retention policy and throttling/squashing diffs as you can have users that make lots of edits and it can take up a lot of data and become hard to follow the logs for the end users! Great work coming up with this pragmatic solution, best of luck with the rollout, and congrats to the team!

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mst5y ago

Currently. Elsewhere in this thread the founder said they're aiming to make it available in the cloud as well.

I'd be a lot more comfortable playing with retool once that happens myself, might, by "only ... so far" appears to be the situaiton.

joshribakoff5y ago

haxton5y ago

If you're a Retool user you can find it under the Beta section in your org settings. And yes, this is available on our cloud offering

joshribakoff5y ago

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