ViewVC is broken on your web site

David Gero david.gero@exfo.com
Wed Aug 6 19:19:00 GMT 2014


>Hi,
>
>On 08/06/2014 08:48 PM, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote:
>> On Aug 6, 2014, at 2:38 PM, David Gero <david.gero@exfo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Accessing https://gcc.gnu.org/viewvc/gcc/trunk/
>>>
>>> Says it is showing 38 files.  But in fact, it shows only the first 25.  As an example, libstdc++-v3 is missing.
>>>
>>> Same thing happens in other parts of the tree.
>>>
>>> I checked the HTML page source, and the files simply aren't there.
>> The same on https://gcc.gnu.org/viewvc/gcc/trunk/gcc/ - except in that case it claims there should be 712 files, and here too is only shows 25 lines.
>>
>> Time to revert whatever change was made that broke this; as it stands the website is completely unuseable.
>
>Thus, the widget on top of the page, meant to select the page the user wants to see (eg, 30 pages overall for ../gcc/trunk) does *not* work for you?!? It works perfectly well for me.
>
>Paolo.

Wow.  What an amazingly unintuitive widget.  I looked all over the page for a "Next 25 files" button.  A "Go To" button that doesn't talk about next 25 files meant nothing.

ViewVC used to display all the files.  This is a giant leap backward in the User Interface.

David



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