This is a roll-up of the relevant Allura code viewer features/fixes that
I believe are necessary for SF to address in order to provide an
environment as usable as ViewVC. If you have a SF account, please
consider voting these up so we can get SourceForge's attention.
Whenever a user clicks on
On a side note, if anyone knows of a Subversion thick client that has
as rich a feature set as this, I'd like to know about it. I am not
aware of one that allows you to view a history of a file or a tree in
the way that ViewVC does.
I really wish SourceForge would just keep ViewVC as an
The closest comparable feature set I have worked with is the WebSVN
tool which is similar to ViewVC. I need to find out if or how it can
be used on remote repositories though. Might be a hassle to have to
setup another web service/site for it but it would be better than
Your requirements may not be the same as mine. I have to deal with
several OS installations with some in a multiboot environment. I
never found a good cross platform SVN tool that had all of the
features I wanted. I haven't tested WebSVN in a none local
configuration yet
I added a brief list of critical features that I think are missing from
the new SVN viewer on this bug report:
https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/480/
Since posting this, they have fixed (2) [apparently a bug] and addressed
(4) with the new Browse Commits feature. However, the
Hi. As you perhaps know, Sourceforge is introducing a new platform called
Allura. Old projects can quite easily migrate.
There are several advantages of doing so:
* SF want projects to migrate, and they are not working on the old
framework any longer. Support cases are often closed with
My main issue with the new platform at the moment is that they've replaced the
repository browser. Instead of ViewVC, it's now their own version that,
frankly, sucks. There are a lot of beta users, including me, complaining about
this. I am hoping they address that issue or provide a ViewVC
Oh, thanks for pointing this out. Can you describe more in detail what
features are missing? Have you reported this to
https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/ ?
Rgds,
Peter
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, DRC wrote:
My main issue with the new platform at the moment is that they've
replaced the
