570929 - Reorganize camino source tree on MXR so that tree switching works

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: MXR, defect)

Description

[timeless]

It isn't currently possible to switch trees between 'camino' and older trees where camino was in cvs. Someone asked me if it was possible to make this work better.

MXR supports switching between trees if the path within the MXR root matches. MXR in a way is ignorant of VCS systems and a root can be composed of a mix of pieces arranged in whichever manner people choose.

Currently, the mxr.mozilla.org camino root has hg.mozilla.org/camino as the root directory, so a file

{hg:camino}/src/application/AppComponents.mm

appears as:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/camino/source/src/application/AppComponents.mm

{mxrroot:camino} = {hg:camino}

however, it's possible to change this so that the root directory _contains_ the hg repository instead of being it,

{mxrroot:camino}/camino = {hg:camino}

so the same file appears as:
http://mxr-test.konigsberg.mozilla.org/camino/source/camino/src/application/AppComponents.mm

with this, you can switch trees to:
http://mxr-test.konigsberg.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8.0/source/camino/src/application/AppComponents.mm
http://mxr-test.konigsberg.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/source/camino/src/application/AppComponents.mm
http://mxr-test.konigsberg.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/camino/src/application/AppComponents.mm
http://mxr-test.konigsberg.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/camino/src/application/AppComponents.mm

Note that old bookmarks to the tree will of course fail, however mxr will offer a find link which should generally correct the search

Comment 1

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http://hg.mozilla.org/webtools/mxr/rev/c1b8e1767516