gitweb limitiations..

diff --git a/doc/bugs/gitweb_deficiency_w.r.t._log_messages.mdwn b/doc/bugs/gitweb_deficiency_w.r.t._log_messages.mdwn
index f9711da0fff8deb7112d37b4d7faf4f37a3d9aca..c465bdd4ab7c579aa60db318bc3d81ae83ef08a7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/gitweb_deficiency_w.r.t._log_messages.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/gitweb_deficiency_w.r.t._log_messages.mdwn
@@ -3,3 +3,8 @@ the one of the actual commit, but the one of some **previous** commit, in most
 cases of the one which was installed directly before the current commit.
 
 --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> Is there some way to make gitweb show a diff with the right message? 
+> I don't see one, except for diffs that show all changes in the commit,
+> rather than only changes to a single file. This feels like a bug in
+> gitweb. --[[Joey]]

diff --git a/doc/bugs/gitweb_deficiency_w.r.t._newly_created_pages.mdwn b/doc/bugs/gitweb_deficiency_w.r.t._newly_created_pages.mdwn
index 09050020430200ad1ef464daf02330c13a245881..255d9cee774ad523d0bdbf33b75eceafbc514120 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/gitweb_deficiency_w.r.t._newly_created_pages.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/gitweb_deficiency_w.r.t._newly_created_pages.mdwn
@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@ Going from *RecentChanges*, when viewing the diffs of newly created pages
 -- in my opinion -- the diff for the newly added page be shown.
 
 --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> I don't see any way to make gitweb do that. You can click on the filename
+> after the "diff -cc" to see the whole file output, but gitweb won't show
+> a diff for a newly added file. --[[Joey]]