Re: View=rev bug?

Michael Jeffrey Tucker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I have been playing around with the different types of queries/views
> that are available in ViewVC set up against a Subversion repository and
> I have found what I think is a small bug.
> http://myserver/viewvc?view=rev lets me "Jump to revision:" by either
> entering a revision number of by using the arrow to the right of the Go
> button. When I enter a revision number, it treats that number as a
> pathrev parameter (which doesn't seem very useful on my repos at the
> moment), but if I use the back or forward arrow, it sets the revision
> parameter (which seems to have more reasonable behavior). If this is not
> a bug, then it is at least unintuitive UI layout -- a back and forward
> button placed next to a random access control should refer to the same
> concept. Should I file this as an issue?

You should first let us know what version of ViewVC you are using -- it's
possible the bug has already been fixed.  (I know that a similar one was
very recently fixed.)

>   On an unrelated note, I am curious why the decision was made not to
> include all Subversion revisions when building the checkins database for
> the database-backed query system. There are revisions that are skipped
> because they only refer to directory modifications -- something that I
> am definitely interested in seeing when I search through the history of
> a Subversion repository.

This was a constraint of the legacy CVS database on which this query support
is built.  CVS doesn't versioned directories, so there wasn't in the
database schema a place to hang information about the versioned directories
that Subversion has.  This is definitely something the developers here are
aware of.

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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@xxxxxxxxxx>
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