Re: [viewvc-users] Revision numbers as links on dir view

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Francisco Javier Herrera Cuadra wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently installed ViewVC 1.1.0. When looking at the directory view, 
>> the revision column (second column) doesn´t become a link for any file 
>> with extension (.js). I set up parameter "mime_types_files" to point to 
>> apache´s mimetypes.conf file, which does have .js files in it. I wonder 
>> if this behavior might have anything to do with mime types or it´s some 
>> parameter I need to set up or it´s something else. I´d appreciate any help.
> 
> How is "allowed_views" configured?  If you have the default value, then it
> lacks the "co" (checkout) token which allows folks to see the checkout (or
> download) views of files.
> 
> My guess is that ViewVC is determining (through mime-type lookup) that your
> .js files are of some type that isn't obvious-by-inspection human-readable
> ("application/javascript", rather than "text/something"), and that ViewVC
> has decided that such files prefer the checkout view (also called the
> download view) instead of the markup (syntax-highlighted) view.  Of course,
> if you've told ViewVC that the checkout view isn't allowed (which is the
> default case), you'll get no link.
> 
> Solutions include:
> 
>   - Adding "co" to the allowed_views.
> 
>   - Overriding the mime-type of .js files in the mimetypes.conf
>     file provided with ViewVC.
> 
>   - Waiting until ViewVC adds support for a human_readable_mime_types
>     configuration option.
> 

Oops!  Forgot one:

    - Tweaking your directory.ezt template so that it always tries to use
      the markup view for files instead of trying to choose between the
      markup and checkout views.

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