Re: [viewvc-users] Viewvc display question/issue.

Erich Proudfit wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have recently upgraded an older system, that was using viewcvs, to a 
> newer system with Debian 5.0 (lenny).
> We are using CVS.  I can see my repository/directories, but the Rev, 
> Age, Author & Last log entry are not populated with any of the data that 
> should be there.
> 
> Is there something I'm missing in the configuration that should find 
> that info and display it?

ViewVC still offers the 'show_subdir_lastmod' option for CVS repositories,
which, if enabled, will attempt to populate those metadata columns for
directory entries.  This is a bit of a hack, really (as it always was), in
which ViewVC will examine the immediate file children of a CVS directory,
find the one most recently changed, and use its commit metadata as that of
the directory.  What some folks don't expect, though, is that if a given CVS
directory has no immediate file children (only other subdirectories, or
nothing at all), ViewVC has nothing to consult for this information, so will
show it as blank.  (And the performance costs of doing a fully recursive
search on every directory would be far too great to justify making such a
change.)

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C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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