506945 - MXR should give VCS URL(s) for the browsed code

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Webtools Graveyard :: MXR, enhancement)

Description

[Samuel Bronson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061212 Iceweasel/3.0.11 (Debian-3.0.11-1)
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It would be really handy if MXR would list the VCS URL(s) that correspond with the code or directory shown; in cases where files within a branch don't actually have URLs of their own, it should display the VCS URL for the branch and the path to the file within the version-controlled tree.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look at some code in MXR
2. decide it looks interesting and that you'd like to check it out
3. wonder where to check it out from
Actual Results:  
I don't know where to check it out from.

Expected Results:  
Was hoping for an SVN URL or something ...

Comment 1

[timeless]

http://mxr.mozilla.org/js/source/js/narcissus/js.js
you'll see "cvs blame", that means the file is managed in cvs which means you can load:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/js/source/js/narcissus/CVS/

and get the other bits you need....

but really, the fact that you see:
changes to
this directory
in the last: 	day
week
month

in a directory listing means that it is CVS managed and does effectively tell you the information you need.

this is a branched version of bugzilla:
http://mxr-test.konigsberg.mozilla.org/bugzilla3.0/source/

and those links are to:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?branch=BUGZILLA-3_0-BRANCH&dir=mozilla/webtools/bugzilla&date=day

which shows that it actually does pull the tag information too.

Comment 2

[Samuel Bronson]

Darnit! Sorry, I somehow missed those boxes on the right. I was looking above and below the file contents ...