Re: [viewvc-users] SVN ViewVC 1.1 "Revision Log Mode" Stop on copy, used to be Follow copies in 1.0?

On 07/02/2010 03:24 PM, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> [As asked on IRC]
> Hi. I develop tikiwiki, which is hosted on sourceforge and uses SVN. I'm 
> pretty sure that recently, file histories started stopping at branch 
> points. This is pretty painful when trying to find when a bug in branch 
> x was introduced, you have to go back to trunk. and then even the trunk 
> is truncated in part due to our migration from CVS.
> For example: 
> http://tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tikiwiki/branches/proposals/4.x/tiki-index.php?view=log
> I asked SourceForge about this issue and was told ViewVC was recently 
> upgraded from 1.0.5 to 1.1.6. could that be the reason?
> I found a ViewVC 1.0 which doesn't have this behavior; you can compare 
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk-1.2/README?view=log (ViewVC 
> 1.0) with  
> http://tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tikiwiki/branches/5.x/README?view=log 
> (ViewVC 1.1) for example.
> In comparison, trac has a "Revision Log Mode:" field, with possible 
> values "Stop on copy" (default) but also "Follow copies".
> So, did viewvc change anything recently (1.0.5 -> 1.1.6) regarding the 
> "Revision Log Mode" field, going from Follow copies to Stop on copy?

This behavior is configurable via viewvc.conf -- see the cross_copies
configuration item.  Though, it should default to *not* stopping at branch
points for both the ViewVC 1.0.x and 1.1.x release lines, so I'm not sure
why you're seeing what you're seeing.

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