OpenGrok for FreeBSD

Zafer Aydoğan zafer at aydogan.de
Tue May 17 09:51:01 UTC 2011


2011/5/17 Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya at gmail.com>:
> Zafer Aydoğan wrote:
>> Hmm... there seems to be very little interest so far.
>
> FWIW, I find this tool useful, but since it's most helpful when you
> need to dig into a previously unknown portion of code, which doesn't
> happen that often, it's reasonable to expect infrequent usage -- don't
> mistake that for lack of interest (i.e. I bookmarked the thing, but
> don't know when I'll get a chance to need it).
>
>> Although this tool is mainly useful for developers,
>> what is the correct mailing list to announce it ?
>
> This would be the correct list, I guess.
>
> PS. The history pages are hard to decode; they are sorted by something
> other than date or revision number; and which branch do they show?
> Compare [1] and [2]; revisions starting from 1.6.2.5 are not from the
> same branch, are they?
>
> [1] http://fxr.aydogan.net/history/src/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.c
> [2] http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.c?view=log
>

The branches are sorted below HEAD.
Its hard to say which branch, unless its noted in the commit log.
This is done by opengrok. Its a feature, I guess.

Zafer.


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