On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:17 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 08/05/2019 15:35, Coty Sutherland wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Someone on freenode (CiscoEagle) pointed out to me that the migration
> > guide's file comparison feature doesn't work :( Looking at the "configure
> > file differences" section on the 9.0 migration guide (
> >
> http://tomcat.apache.org/migration-9.html#Tomcat_9.0.x_configuration_file_differences
> ),
> > if you click the "view differences" button you get taken to the gitbox
> web
> > UI, but it returns a 403. Does anyone have any idea how to fix it? I
> looked
> > to see if there was an alternative method to get the diff in the web UI
> but
> > I don't see one that allows you to compare files across tags.
>
> The feature has been (hopefully)  temporarily disabled by infra due to
> abuse. If there was a way of doing this in GitHub, we could use that.
> I've tried, and failed, to find one.
>

Ah, OK. I tried to find a quick way to do it on GitHub but all I can find
is comparing all files in a tag, like
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/compare/9.0.1...9.0.17. It's really easy
to do in the git CLI, but I don't see an easy way in the web UI.


>
> > Additionally the 8.0.x configuration file differences section is
> completely
> > broken (returns a 404) because it tries to use the svn repo for
> comparison,
> > which no longer exists. Example:
> >
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc8.0.x/trunk/conf/catalina.policy?diff_format=h&r1=1830460&r2=1834688
>
> That page shouldn't be publicly linked any more but we can fix it to
> point to the new svn location.
>

OK. I can adjust it if you tell me where the new location is :)


>
> Mark
>
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