[M3devel] Fwd: cvsweb regression?

[Michael Anderson]

Quoting Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com>:

> Hi Mike and Kay,
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> did you change anything regarding the cvsweb installation?
> It used to work without problems some weeks ago.
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Not knowingly. I'll look into it.

-Mike

> Olaf
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> ----- Forwarded message from jay.krell at cornell.edu -----
>     Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:58:39 +0000
>     From: Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>
> Reply-To: Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>
>  Subject: [M3devel] cvsweb regression?
>       To: m3devel <m3devel at elegosoft.com>
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> This is strange. I've seen it on several machines now.
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> Clean installs. Old installs. IE6. IE8. Probably Firefox. Maybe IE7.
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> Viewing diffs in cvsweb significantly regressed fairly resently.
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> The "preferred" view, while not really to my liking, at least did a
> half decent
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> attempt to show the data. Now however it doesn't show much at all.
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> In particular, the colors that were used to differentiate lines
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> are no longer used. As a result the "preferred" view is really worthless.
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> Simple example:
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> http://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/thread/PTHREAD/ThreadPThread.i3.diff?r1=1.31;r2=1.32
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> I just use "unified" instead.
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> Which also isn't necessarily best.
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> What you really often want is "unified but with the full contents".
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> Or maybe "unified with infinite context".
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> Maybe this is related to the color scheme change elsewhere on the website??
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> (Really I consider cvsweb just one of the great deficiencies of cvs.
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> Not only is the diff not well presented, but given a commit mail it
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> is incredibly laborious to track down the diff, both to find just one file
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> let alone all the files.)
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>  - Jay
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> ----- End forwarded message -----
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