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.
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