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

Filipus Klutiero <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.viewcvs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2010-07-06 10:15, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> 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.
>    
Thank you Michael.
I went to #sourceforge where one person said cross_copies was disabled 
upgrading to 1.1 and one said it wasn't. In any case, on my request, 
cross_copies was re-enabled, but this broke all revision logs with a 
Python exception. SF then re-disabled cross_copies and now have no 
intention to turn it back on. Instead, they suggested to enable a Trac 
instance, which I did. This solves my problem.

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