history_view more useful if actions were reversed

[dannyadair]

VersionAdmin.history_view shows object history with the oldest revision first. I find that the newest at the top would be more intuitive, and also after a lot of changes scrolling is needed - a lot of times the most recent change(s) are of most interest.

[jernejcic]

I agree. At least allowing a settings to reverse the display in the admin would be nice.

[etianen]

I've always said no to this enhancement before, since it means changing the way the admin screen works compared to the rest of Django.

However, too many people have been asking for this over the last couple of years for it to be ignored. Rather than simply reversing the order of actions, however, I think it might be time to add in some decent date-based filter controls and a search option to make finding old revisions actually useful!

[dannyadair]

That sounds great, too!
An optional reversal is definitely a lot less work though - two lines?:
An attribute on VersionAdmin (history_latest_first = False) and then reversing the queryset for history_view if it is True would be simple and keep it optional (for those who don't mind changing the way the admin screen works).

[etianen]

I've added in a history_latest_first option to the dev branch. This should be part of the 1.5 release that's scheduled to land tonight.

[dannyadair]

Awesome, thank you!