[M3devel] Fwd: cvsweb regression?

[Olaf Wagner]

Hi Mike and Kay,

did you change anything regarding the cvsweb installation?
It used to work without problems some weeks ago.

Olaf

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     Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:58:39 +0000
     From: Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>
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  Subject: [M3devel] cvsweb regression?
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This is strange. I've seen it on several machines now.

Clean installs. Old installs. IE6. IE8. Probably Firefox. Maybe IE7.



Viewing diffs in cvsweb significantly regressed fairly resently.

The "preferred" view, while not really to my liking, at least did a  
half decent

attempt to show the data. Now however it doesn't show much at all.

In particular, the colors that were used to differentiate lines

are no longer used. As a result the "preferred" view is really worthless.



Simple example:

http://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/thread/PTHREAD/ThreadPThread.i3.diff?r1=1.31;r2=1.32





I just use "unified" instead.

Which also isn't necessarily best.

What you really often want is "unified but with the full contents".

Or maybe "unified with infinite context".





Maybe this is related to the color scheme change elsewhere on the website??





(Really I consider cvsweb just one of the great deficiencies of cvs.

Not only is the diff not well presented, but given a commit mail it

is incredibly laborious to track down the diff, both to find just one file

let alone all the files.)





  - Jay





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This is strange. I've seen it on several machines now.

Clean installs. Old installs. IE6. IE8. Probably Firefox. Maybe IE7.

 

Viewing diffs in cvsweb significantly regressed fairly resently.

The "preferred" view, while not really to my liking, at least did a half decent

attempt to show the data. Now however it doesn't show much at all.

In particular, the colors that were used to differentiate lines

are no longer used. As a result the "preferred" view is really worthless.

 

Simple example:

http://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/thread/PTHREAD/ThreadPThread.i3.diff?r1=1.31;r2=1.32

 

 

I just use "unified" instead.

Which also isn't necessarily best.

What you really often want is "unified but with the full contents".

Or maybe "unified with infinite context".

 

 

Maybe this is related to the color scheme change elsewhere on the website??

 

 

(Really I consider cvsweb just one of the great deficiencies of cvs.

Not only is the diff not well presented, but given a commit mail it

is incredibly laborious to track down the diff, both to find just one file

let alone all the files.)

 

 

 - Jay



 		 	   		  
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