[Savannah-hackers] Re: %2F in arg to viewcvs doesn't work

[Mathieu Roy]

"Stefan Monnier" <address@hidden> said:

> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD
> 
> gives me the head revision of the emacs/lisp/ChangeLog file, but
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp%2FChangeLog?rev=HEAD
> 
> gives me:
> 
> The requested URL /cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog was not found 
> on this server.

And that's correct, there's no url with %2F. 

How do you get this url?

> 
> 
> I noticed this while trying to setup a bookmark in my browser with
> the following URL:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/%s?rev=HEAD

This links does not work too, and I do not know how you get it too.


> hoping that I could then just type `emacscvs lisp/subr.el' to view
> the head revision of the lisp/subr.el file.  But sadly, this doesn't
> work because the %-processing is not done early enough (or at all)
> by viewcvs.  Is there any hope to see this fixed soon ?

What is emacscvs? What does it have to do with viewcvs?



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