Re: [viewvc-dev] Making repos URL obvious in ViewVC.

"C. Michael Pilato" <[email protected]> writes:
> Karl, you can do this kind of thing already by simply modifying the
> templates.  For example, you might tweak templates/include/dir_header.ezt to
> contain text something like this:
>
>    <p>You can checkout a copy of the directory you are current viewing by
>       doing the following:</p>
>
>    <blockquote><pre>
>    svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/[rootname][if-any where]/[where][end]
>    </pre></blockquote>
>
> In the "my repository URLs don't map very easily to their disk location"
> case, I admit that the EZT language won't be quite as graceful as having
> some kind of custom configury magic in viewvc.conf.  But what you wish to do
> should still be doable in any case.
>
> For kicks, I quickly added a "Checkout URL" row to the headers on the ViewVC
> instance at http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn.  I did so with the following
> EZT stuffs:
>
>    [define checkout_url]http://svn.collab.net/repos/[rootname][if-any
> where]/[where]/[end][end]
>    <tr>
>      <td>Checkout URL</td>
>      <td><a href="[checkout_url]">[checkout_url]</a></td>
>    </tr>
>
> Maybe you could do the same in the places you need this information?

Terrific!  That's the main place I would have wanted to do it anyway.
I might also try something like that on the red-bean.com repositories,
but it's less urgent there.

Thanks for the tip,
-Karl

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