>From my point of view, I am simply trying to get back the SVN browsing >functionality that ViewVC had, so the details of the git implementation aren't >currently important to me personally, although others may have their own >opinions on that. I would say that the same principle applies-- provide the >same functionality that your old git viewer provided.
The basic workflow I need is: -- pull up the history view of a file or folder -- if at some point in the history, the file/folder was renamed or moved, then I want a link to a history view of the previous incarnation of the file/folder, so I can keep tracing the history back. Currently, there is no way of distinguishing from the first revision of a file/folder and the first revision after it was copied/moved/renamed. Even if you know that it was copied/moved/renamed, it's difficult to figure out what the old name was, and even if you know the old name, you have to go through the trouble of setting a sticky revision in the browser in order to even find the old version in the tree. --- ** [tickets:#5775] Allura Code Viewer: provide "copied from" link in history view** **Status:** in-progress **Labels:** 42cc **Created:** Thu Feb 07, 2013 09:12 PM UTC by DRC **Last Updated:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:55 AM UTC **Owner:** nobody This is one of several tickets I am creating to log what I feel are shortcomings in the new (Allura) code viewer relative to the old (ViewVC) code viewer. In all of these cases, simply providing a way for users to continue using ViewVC would be an acceptable workaround. In ViewVC, if a file or directory had been renamed, then the history view of said file/directory provided a link at the bottom that allowed one to easily browse the old history of the file/directory before it has been renamed. Example (see bottom of page): http://libjpeg-turbo.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libjpeg-turbo/trunk/turbojpeg.c?view=log This is a critical feature for being able to visualize the history of a repository. --- Sent from sourceforge.net because allura-dev@incubator.apache.org is subscribed to https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/ To unsubscribe from further messages, a project admin can change settings at https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/admin/tickets/options. Or, if this is a mailing list, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list.
