Re: web history for deleted files?

Larry McVoy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.bitkeeper.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:02:01AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> I'm trying to find the web-ified history for drivers/serial/8250_hcdp.c
> in the linux-2.5 BK tree.  This file was removed a while back.
> 
> I can still find the prs history in my local tree like this:
>     bk prs BitKeeper/deleted/SCCS/s..del-8250_hcdp.c~7385106462a6872b
> 
> But there's nothing in the Bitkeeper/deleted folder in the web interface:
>     http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/src/BitKeeper/deleted?nav=index.html|src/.|src/BitKeeper

We must filter that out.

> I assume that the bookmarkable links, like:
>     http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset%4040df0948eFn0hHP_6wt_Kqc6Ttorfg
> 
> will still remain valid "forever", even if the related files are moved
> or deleted someday.  Right?

Correct.

We could figure out an interface so that you could get at the file via the
rootkey.  Something like 

	bk prs '[email protected]|drivers/serial/8250_hcdp.c|20030514145037|13190|7385106462a6872b'

which would fall back on looking files up by key rather than path when the 
path doesn't work and it looks like a key.

You are a commercial customer, file an RFE and we'll try and hack it in.  It's
not a five minute hack but it's not a 5 week hack either.  Probably a couple
of days to get it right, tested, and integrated on bkbits in bk/web.
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com
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