Cannot view history of files which have been moved

[Dave Matthews]

source:trunk/wiki-macros/HelloWorld.py demonstrates the problem. You can view the ​full history of the latest version by enabling the follow copies option. From there you can view ​rev 1519. However, if you then try to view the ​revision history of that version it only shows adds, moves and deletes so you only see rev 167 and rev 1636. If you try to enable ​follow copies this get ignored (even though it is selected in the URL). You can view the change history of the file if you ​manually enter rev 1519 but there is no way to get to this from the web interface.

[Christian Boos]

The problem is that the Revision Log link doesn't specify the start revision, so the latest revision is used. Since there's no such path at the latest revision, the Revision Log view fallbacks to the shows adds, moves and deletes mode.

Note that this is not true with the current trunk anymore: now, you'll get an explicit error message, see #2110).

The fix would be that the Revision Log link should also specify the revision at which to start:

browser.py

@@ -101 +101 @@
                            if not name in hidden_properties]),
             'href': util.escape(self.env.href.browser(path, rev=rev or
                                                       repos.youngest_rev)),
-            'log_href': util.escape(self.env.href.log(path))
+            'log_href': util.escape(self.env.href.log(path, rev=rev))
         }
 
         path_links = get_path_links(self.env.href, path, rev)

[Christian Boos]

Fixed in r2382.