[fossil-users] File List via the Files Menu... Listing old files?
I do not use the Files link much, at all, however today I noticed that the File List via the main toolbar's Files link shows files that are no longer in the repo. Well, in any current leaf that is. They are obviously there in old revisions. Is this the designed behavior? You can see this on: http://jeremy.cowgar.com/mailroom/index.cgi/dir See the files combobox.tcl and notebook.tcl ? Those were removed a while ago from a commit. You can see via the Leaves link http://jeremy.cowgar.com/mailroom/index.cgi/leaves that there is only one active leaf and viewing it's files link you can see that the two mentioned files are no longer part of the project. http://jeremy.cowgar.com/mailroom/index.cgi/dir?ci=a3ee17ca11 Jeremy ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] File List via the Files Menu... Listing old files?
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jeremy Cowgar jer...@cowgar.com wrote: If you want the Files button on the main menu to only show currently existing files, simply change the link to be /dir?ci=trunk I think I will do that. To me it's more likely that someone will browse the Files link thinking it is the current files list. If they want a legacy file, they can always update to the revision they wish to work with. i think it would make sense to mark files which aren't in the currently-browsed version, such as rendering them like [foo.c] or (foo.c) or simply *foo.c. When browsing an old version, we don't really want to see files which weren't in that version. That implies that we should mark old files using one convention and future files using another, e.g. [foo.c] for old and (foo.c) for exists-in-the-future. :-? -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] File List via the Files Menu... Listing old files?
On Dec 8, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jeremy Cowgar jer...@cowgar.com wrote: If you want the Files button on the main menu to only show currently existing files, simply change the link to be /dir?ci=trunk I think I will do that. To me it's more likely that someone will browse the Files link thinking it is the current files list. If they want a legacy file, they can always update to the revision they wish to work with. i think it would make sense to mark files which aren't in the currently-browsed version, such as rendering them like [foo.c] or (foo.c) or simply *foo.c. When browsing an old version, we don't really want to see files which weren't in that version. That implies that we should mark old files using one convention and future files using another, e.g. [foo.c] for old and (foo.c) for exists-in- the-future. How does Fossil know what the currently-browsed version is? D. Richard Hipp d...@hwaci.com ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] File List via the Files Menu... Listing old files?
In practical terms, it is very annoying and confusing to go to the files section and see that the file that we introduced by error several years ago and immediately after deleted, is listed there as a normal file. In my opinion, the best option would be to list by default the files of the last version of the trunk, and include a button named All versions, that would redirect to the current behavior. 2009/12/8 Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:26 PM, D. Richard Hipp d...@hwaci.com wrote: How does Fossil know what the currently-browsed version is? Great question :). i assumed that there was an argument, e.g. ci=VERSION, which could be used to specify that. But i'm also still thinking in terms of versions in the way that cvs/svn/etc use them, which probably isn't that useful in this context. -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] File List via the Files Menu... Listing old files?
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:47:18AM -0500, D. Richard Hipp wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: I do not use the Files link much, at all, however today I noticed that the File List via the main toolbar's Files link shows files that are no longer in the repo. Well, in any current leaf that is. They are obviously there in old revisions. Is this the designed behavior? Yes, it is by design. How else do you propose to get to legacy files? To view the files current for a particular check-in, use the Files link on the information page for that particular check-in. If you want the Files button on the main menu to only show currently existing files, simply change the link to be /dir?ci=trunk D. Richard Hipp d...@hwaci.com _ Perhaps it would be useful to change the link name to 'All Files', or add a note on the resulting page indicating you are viewing all files from beginning of project. I like that the Files link shows all files. How else do I find that old file from ... uhh, I remember I wrote it and deleted it about, hmmm, three months ago ? But now I want to take a look at it again. (a rephrasing of drh's point above). I find this very useful behaviour. I don't want to start looking through version (check-in) after version (timeline - version - files) to find some file from the past. If I am looking at a particular version, only those files (from that check-in) will show anyway (again, as previously pointed out by drh). ~Michael ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
