Re: Switching from CVS to XXX

Am .10.2017, 20:54 Uhr, schrieb Alexander Leidinger <[email protected]>:

>>> People who want to download SVN snapshots from sf web site, they
>>> navigate to trunk/lame and click download snapshot. What they get
>>> isn't just a snapshot from former module LAME, but a snapshot from
>>> the whole trunk with website and all. This needs to get fixed.
>>
>> In the SF admin part we can change the point to which the users gets
>> linked to when clickon in the SVN link in the menu. This could be
>> used to point to it. It also means that with the webinterface you
>> will not see the other parts of the SVN (except you change the URL
>> by hand to see them).
>
> I played around with the settings in the menu and changed it to
> trunk/lame. This doesn't change something for the snapshot, it changes
> the command line displayed to checkout.

Well if it's beyond our control, we have to ask SF to fix it.
With ViewVC it was possible to check out Tagged Revisions and Branches.

>>> Regression 2: editing commited log messages
>>>
>>> With CVS it was possible to edit and correct log messages after commit.
>>> Now that feature isn't there anymore.
>>
>> I wanted to google a little bit for the error message you showed me,
>> didn'T manage to do that yet. I assume we have to modify the hooks
>> in the SVN (shell access, modify a file). The file in question was
>> temporary moved away while importing from CVS, so it is surely
>> possible to allow it. My questions here are why is this disallowed
>> by default @SF (impact on webinterface?), and can we allowed it
>> without issues for at least the log-editing?
>
> This seems to be the SVN-default, not something specific to SF.
> Please try again. Delete of the log should not work, changing the log
> should work. Any other revprop change (date, author, ...) is not
> allowed.

Thanks, that works now!

Ciao Robert

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