Re: [viewvc-dev] viewvc-1.1.2 and copied paths in log view

Apologies - now realizing I should have sent this users instead of dev.
re-posting there now....

On Oct 23 09:24, Tom Throckmorton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm prepping to move to 1.1.2 from a 1.1-dev release, and noticed a behavior
> change in the way copied resources are shown in the revision log view that I'm
> not sure is intentional.  Looked through the list, issue tracker, commits and
> the code a little to see if I could find a relevant change, but so far not
> finding an answer, so I'm hoping someone can help provide insight.
> 
> If I browse to a particular rev (view=revision) that contains copied resources,
> the copied paths are reflected in the result, e.g. 'Changed paths' includes a
> non-href'ed message '(Copied from path/to/resource, r1234) below the link to
> each changed item.  If, however, I view the revision log (view=log) for a given
> file that was copied, the ancestors are no longer listed directly in the result
> - there is instead now only an href to 'Copied from: path/to/resource revision
> 1234', and the file is listed as 'Added' vs. 'Modified'.
> 
> This has the side effect of preventing a 'Diff to previous' between the first
> copied version and its ancestor directly in viewvc, and while I can think of
> reasons why it might _not_ ought to behave that way, presenting the full
> ancestry seems more in line with what would be seen using 'svn log', and FWIW,
> with the behavior in 1.0.5 and at least some 1.1 pre-release revs.
> 
> So, was this an intentional feature change, or just a bug?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -tt

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