wiki:RevtreePlugin

Version 4 (modified by Emmanuel Blot, 17 years ago) (diff)

First useful documentation of the plugin

Revision Graph for the Version Control Browser

Description

This plugin renders a graphical representation of the repository.

Overview

This plugin creates a graph that show the changesets of the project repository.

Filters

The user may select which changesets are to be rendered, based on the several filters:

  • The main filters are mutually exclusive:
    1. changeset range: this filter selects a range of changesets to be rendered
    2. time range: this filters selects the latest changesets of the repository, with the following predefined time ranges:
      • day, 2 days, 3 days, week, fortnight, month, 2 months, 3 months, year
  • Any of the following filters can be combined to the main filter to refine the selection:
    • branch name: this filter selects a single branch, along with all branches declared as 'trunks'
    • author: this filter selects all the branches for which the selected author has be a participant (i.e. has committed at least one changeset)
    • terminated branches: this filter allows to discard all branches that have been 'terminated', i.e. deleted

User preferences (filters)
User preferences (filters)

Two kinds of views can be selected:

  • compact: in this mode, the revtree graph is kept as compact as possible, as an attempt to make all the changeset visible in the web browser page and thereby minimize the scrolling actions. Changesets are placed along on their branche, irrespectively of the nearby branches.
  • timeline: in this mode, the revtree graph maintains a time view of the repository: each changeset can be seen relatively to the other changesets, whichever the changeset branch.

User preference persistence

The plugin stores the user settings (filters) in the user session, so the latest configuration is used whenever the user selects the 'revtree' page.

In some cases, the chosen filters select no changeset hence no revtree graph cannot be rendered. In such an event, a Trac error is displayed with the following message:

Selected filters cannot render a revision tree

User settings are not saved if the filter does not permit to generate a valid revtree graph.

Limitations

There are a lot of limitations, so read them carefully.

  1. the RevtreePlugin generates inlined SVG.
    • SVG is only supported on modern browsers
    • inlined SVG means that the plugin generates XHTML+SVG data, which are only supported by few browsers. Many browsers that support SVG do not accept inlined SVG.
  2. the RevtreePlugin only works with SVN repositories
  3. it does not support SVN authz
  4. it has not been thought with multiple projects per repository in mind, so its support for this kind of configuration is probably weak
  5. filters do not support multiple selections: one can only select all or one branch, all or one author

See RevtreePlugin/Limitations for a technical 'discussion' about the current limitations.

Supported browsers

All browsers that supports inlined SVG should work. However, as it seems that only few browsers are able to cope w/ this data format, the following table tries to sum up what you can expect from your browser:

OS Browser Version Support Issues
Windows Firefox 1.5, 2.0 OK  
IE + Adobe 7.0 + 3.03 Joke Does not even understand the XHTML+XML MIME type
Opera 9.02 Partial Info tips are not shown
OS X Firefox 1.5, 2.0 Buggy Changeset text is not show
3.0a1 Buggy Issues with fonts
Camino 1.0.3 Buggy Changeset text is not shown
OmniWeb 5.5.1 Weak Changeset text sometimes disappears Info tips are not shown
Safari 2.0.4 No Does not support SVG
Webkit r18244 Partial Info tips are not shown
Opera 9.02 Partial Info tips are not shown
Linux       Not tested - yet

Additional notes

When info tips are not shown, links to the source browser are likely to be broken.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for RevtreePlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Installation

Get the plugin source code

Download

Download the zipped source from [download:revtreeplugin here].

Source

You can check out RevtreePlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Build the plugin

As with any other plugin:

python setup.py bdist_egg

Installation of the plugin

Copy the generated egg file (from the dist/ directory) to your project plugin directory, or in the global plugin directory if you want to use it for several Trac projects

Configuration

Revtree plugin can be configured with the help of the following settings:

  • Mandatory parameters defined in the Trac section
    [trac]
    # SVN repositories only
    repository_type = svn
    # Base URL is a required parameter: it should be defined
    base_url = none
    
  • Optional parameters defined in the revtree section
    [revtree]
    # regular expression for branch recognition 
    # (always define 2 named groups: 'branch' and 'path')
    branch_re = ^(?P<branch>branches/[^/]+|trunk|data)(?:/(?P<path>.*))?$
    # space-separated list of branches that should be considered as 'trunks'
    trunks = trunk
    # SVG rendering scale (real number)
    scale = 1
    # oldest revision to consider (default to the latest revision in the repos)
    revbase = 1
    # whether time filters are related to the youngest revision or 
    # based on absolute time
    reltime = True
    # default appearance (either 'compact' or 'timeline')
    style = compact
    

Some settings deserve additional information:

  • the style option defines the default revtree graph style. Each user overwrites the default style the first time he updates the revtree style.
  • the reltime option cannot be customized by the users. The admin choses whether the time filters are based on the absolute time or the youngest changeset in the repository. Let's say the youngest revision in the repository has been committed three days ago:
    1. if reltime is set, the revtree time starts three days ago as well: if the user selects the last 2 days as a filter, the last 5 days (3+2) would be shown
    2. if reltime is not set, the revtree time starts now: if the user selects the last 2 days, no changeset would be shown.

Permissions

The RevtreePlugin defines a new permission REVTREE_VIEW. This permission should be defined for the 'revtree' link to appear in the main navigation bar, and to give access to the revtree feature.

Example

Revtree view (compact mode)

Recent Changes

15470 by rjollos on 2016-04-14 00:17:26
Remove tag_svn_revsion attribute

The attribute isn't supported in setuptools >= 10.

13844 by eblot on 2014-04-09 13:50:23
Creates a new directory for Revtree dedicated to Trac 1.1+ installations
13716 by eblot on 2014-03-03 08:59:13
Closes #7608. Remove seed initializer, keep random color generation in case a branch is not named (which should never happen)
(more)

How is this plugin related to the previous plugin?

It superseeds the SvnCcHelpersScript/RevTree plugin:

  1. it does not rely on any Clearcase external scripts nor on any SVN custom properties.
  2. it does not use the GraphvizPlugin nor the Graphviz (dot) tool - it is a pure Python implementation
  3. it uses the Trac repository cache, which dramatically speeds up the creation of the graph

The older plugin code has been removed from the TracHacks.org repository.

Author/Contributors

Author

Contributors

Libraries

The RevtreePlugin uses the following libraries:

  • Jquery a lightweight, yet powerful Javascript library
  • SVGdraw is a Python library that enables SVG generation

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