Re: [viewvc-users] Unable to correctly view branched HTML content.

On 04/13/2011 05:15 AM, Burhan Ali wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We are using ViewVC 1.0.4 and we have a branched project with HTML 
> documents in it.
> 
> I can view the branched version of these files as ViewVC will add 
> "?pathrev=xxx" to the URL. Unfortunately all related resources 
> (hyperlinks, images, css, etc) do not have this URL parameter and so 
> will refer to the trunk.
> 
> Some of these resources (eg. images) do no exist on the trunk and so the 
> documents are incomplete. Worse than this is the fact that the 
> hyperlinks point to a different version of documentation. This has 
> tripped up people a number of times.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to ViewVC to allow me to correctly view the 
> contents of a branch?
> 
> The following feature request alluded to the same basic issue but there 
> has been no further changes on it since its creation in 2009:
> 
>    http://viewvc.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=413  Include sticky 
> revisions in path part of URL
> 
> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

You didn't say, and you used the term "trunk" which I typically associate
with Subversion, but may I assume that you are using CVS as your version
control backend?

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