Re: [viewvc-users] svn sticky revision in path rather than query

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to include the svn sticky revision in the path component of a
> ViewVC URL instead of the query part?
> 
> The use case is that my repository stores the HTML files of a website. I
> would like to browse an old version of the website using a sticky revision.
> Links within the HTML files don't include the "?pathrev=XXX" part, so they
> point to the HEAD revision, not revision of the source link.
> 
> Sticky revisions would be stickier if there were a means to put them in the
> path part of the URL. Instead of
> http://example.org/viewvc.cgi/some/file?pathrev=10000, it would be useful to
> be able to write http://example.org/viewvc.cgi/*revision=10000*/some/file. 
> 
> However, the specification of ViewVC URLs
> (http://viewvc.tigris.org/nonav/source/browse/*checkout*/viewvc/trunk/docs/u
> rl-reference.html) doesn't seem to allow for this.
> 
> Is there a simple solution to implement this requirement? (maybe through
> Apache rewrite rules?)

I haven't thought too much about this proposal, but at first glance it
sounds good.  Maybe the syntax would be better off as
".../*checkout=PATHREV*/...", where PATHREV is either a revision (for
Subversion displays) or a tag (for CVS).  But in general, I like the idea.
Of course, it still would only work for repositories that don't require the
"?root=ROOTNAME" CGI parameter (those that are the only repository under a
given ViewVC instance, or with have root_as_url_component=1).

Wanna file this as a feature request in our tracker?

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand

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