Re: [viewvc-users] ViewVC CVS diff displays No changes instead of diff

Glad that the debugging trick worked out for you.

Are you able to share the source of the problem so that others who might
experience the same thing know where to look?  Is there a bug in ViewVC that
needs to be addressed?


On 07/09/2012 03:54 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Many thanks for your tips, I have cornered the problem, the debug logs
> worked fine.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Zoltan
> 
> 
> 
> From:        "C. Michael Pilato" <[email protected]>
> To:        Zoltan Csoka <[email protected]>,
> Cc:        <[email protected]>
> Date:        06/07/2012 17:45
> Subject:        Re: [viewvc-users] ViewVC CVS diff displays No changes
> instead of diff
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/06/2012 04:35 AM, Zoltan Csoka wrote:
> 
>> I tried to put print statements (and later file write ones) to the
>> lib/vclib/__init__.py where the "def _diff_args(type, options)" is to
>> print out the rcsdiff arguments to be able to compare it to the command
>> line ones, but those printouts were ignored and no output was written
> 
> I would play around in lib/vclib/ccvs/bincvs.py:BinCVSRepository.rawdiff()
> using some file-based debugging statements such as:
> 
>   open('/path/to/debug/logfile', 'a').write("This is a debug statement\n")
> 
> For example, you might add the line below (which appends a stringified form
> of the list "args" to a file):
> 
>    open('/tmp/VIEWVCLOG', 'a').write(str(args) + "\n")
> 
> just before this statement in the function:
> 
>    fp = self.rcs_popen('rcsdiff', args, 'rt')
> 
> When I do so and then view a CVS diff, the file /tmp/VIEWVCLOG is created
> (if it didn't already exist), and the following line is appended to it:
> 
>   ['-u', '-r1.10', '-r1.11', '/usr/local/cvs/ViewCVS/viewcvs/CHANGES,v']
> 
> Be aware that if you're running ViewVC under mod_python or mod_wsgi, you
> might have to restart your web server every time you make a change to a
> Python module in order for your new code to get executed.
> 
> -- 
> C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
> CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net  <>   Enterprise Cloud Development
> 
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