[darcs-users] Trac backend for darcs

[Lele Gaifax]

Hi all,

a few days ago I implemented a much requested functionality that
allows referencing a particular changeset either with its cardinal
number (with the usual "[123]" syntax) or by its exact hash: you can
now use the syntax "[20010203122311-abcde-zcx...ura.gz]" that is
bracketing the patch hash name. This has the obvious advantange of
being unrelated to the actual order of patches in the trac-ed
repository.

As a side benefit, you can also point to a particular changeset by
adding the hash to the ".../changeset/" URL, but this has a drawback,
due to the hashname ending with ".gz": by default apache will add a
"Content-encoding: gzip" to the response headers, and this confuses
most browsers (FF will show either a blank page or an encoding
error).

I tried playing with the ForceType_ directive to force everything
below ".../changeset/" to "text/html", but it didn't succeed.

I like to hear some suggestion on how to circumnvent the problem: I
could try harder with the apache setup, or the backend could
understand also an hashname missing the ending ".gz"...

Any hint will be very appreciated,
thanks,
ciao, lele.

.. _ForceType: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#forcetype
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