[chora] Weird results with Chora 1.0

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:50:37PM -0500, Colin Viebrock wrote:
> > Yeah, it is.  CVS never deletes directories - when you delete
> > an entire tree, all the files in there are moved into the relevant
> > Attic/ directories.
> >
> > >From Chora's point of view, when it looks at a single repository
> > directory, it doesn't know that some of the directories are
> > actually "empty" on that branch.
> >
> > The only real way to solve this is by using a database to
> > pre-process the CVS repository to make up for some of CVS's
> > shortcomings (to handle searching, better views, per-commit revs).
> 
> Yeah.  Hrmm.  Funny thing is, I don't remember seeing this behaviour in
> Chora 0.6 (or whatever the previous stable release was).  There is a very
> good chance it was just me not noticing it before.
> 

It's definitely been there forever (it should happen to all cvsweb
apps as well - might be worth checking out to see if any
have cunning workarounds we could use)

Anil