On 3/3/26 6:21 PM, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 05:55:07PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
If you see any important features missing, let us know.
Viewing a diff as html, (I.E. 'Diff to foo.bar'), rather than a text download
produces a page with a banner, the file path, and 'Diff from ...', but no
actual diff.
this is a bug. it WAS working. :-/
It works correctly when downloading the same diff as text.
But compared to the old version, now it's only possible to request a diff to
an immediately previous version. Is that intentional to reduce the number of
automated requests?
There is a box at the top of the file history screen that you can put
"diff from revision [box] to revision [box] [submit]"
If the diff feature wasn't broke, you could put the two desired versions there.
Not being able to select a diff between arbitrary versions just by clicking is
a feature to reduce the automated requests. The fact taht it doesn't work is
a bug.
Also, in the directory listing display, it's no longer possible to sort by
revision, date, etc. That was particularly useful before.
Note: while it LOOKS a lot like the old version, it is NOT URL compatible
with the perl version, so old bookmarks into files won't work.
Bookmarks are easily updated, but this will break any links posted to other
mailing lists or forums. Was there a particular reason to break this?
well...right now, I'm getting thousands of of invalid requests per minute, so
I'd consider that a "load shedding feature". It could probably be reworked in
the future. But that was basically broke before due to trying to detect humans
vs. bots.
But still, it's better to have this version working than the previous one
being overloaded and redirecting elsewhere, etc, etc.
yes...
The biggest regression is probably the lack of customisable file ordering in
the directory display, which would seem like an easy fix.
noted...
Nick.
