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Defect #5357

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Git: SCM revisions ordered by date/time (should be reverse commit order)

Added by Pieter Smith almost 14 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Toshi MARUYAMA
Category:
SCM
Target version:
Start date:
2010-04-20
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Resolution:
Affected version:

Description

The repository browser displays the commit history sorted by date/time. When developers are working in different time-zones (or have a badly adjusted PC clocks), the commit sequence gets all jumbled up in the repository view.

Reproduction:
  1. Commit something to a GIT repo.
  2. Set PC clock to <today> - <1 day>.
  3. Commit something else.

Files

sort-changesets-by-id.diff (2.43 KB) sort-changesets-by-id.diff Yuya Nishihara, 2010-04-20 16:40
sort-changes-by-id-for-git.diff (836 Bytes) sort-changes-by-id-for-git.diff Pieter Smith, 2010-04-21 10:30
Redmine_Repository_View.JPG (122 KB) Redmine_Repository_View.JPG Pieter Smith, 2010-04-21 15:42
git-changeset-order-workaround.diff (1.01 KB) git-changeset-order-workaround.diff Yuya Nishihara, 2010-04-21 17:20
git-rebase.png (95.6 KB) git-rebase.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2010-09-22 15:00
git-order-new.diff (1.15 KB) git-order-new.diff Toshi MARUYAMA, 2010-09-23 16:57
git-order-before.png (97.9 KB) git-order-before.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2010-09-23 16:57
git-order-after.png (94.1 KB) git-order-after.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2010-09-23 16:57
rebase-multi-revs-before.png (48.1 KB) rebase-multi-revs-before.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2010-09-28 14:50
rebase-multi-revs-after.png (33.1 KB) rebase-multi-revs-after.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2010-09-28 14:50
git-rebase-20110208.png (91.6 KB) git-rebase-20110208.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-02-08 02:14
sort-changes-by-id-for-git-r5074.diff (1.01 KB) sort-changes-by-id-for-git-r5074.diff Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-03-10 05:39
chili-pdf-issue-61.png (215 KB) chili-pdf-issue-61.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-05-27 13:36

Related issues

Related to Redmine - Defect #7146: Git adapter lost commits before 7 days from database latest changesetClosedToshi MARUYAMA2010-12-21

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Related to Redmine - Defect #4657: Wrong timestamp for import of entries of the last ChangeSet.NewToshi MARUYAMA

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Related to Redmine - Defect #7821: Git "previous" and "next" revisions are incorrectClosedToshi MARUYAMA2011-03-10

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Related to Redmine - Defect #8049: Git: fetch_changesets not updating project's repositoryClosed2011-04-02

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Related to Redmine - Feature #2799: Support for Bazaar's shared reposetories (created with init-repo)New2009-02-21

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Related to Redmine - Feature #6566: Convert the git adapter to ruggedNew2010-10-04

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Related to Redmine - Feature #5501: Git: Mercurial: Adding visual merge/branch history to repository viewClosedToshi MARUYAMA2010-05-11

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Related to Redmine - Defect #11710: Git: Repository view author/date inconsistencyNew

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Related to Redmine - Defect #2108: git repository browser uses author time instead of commit time for orderingClosed2008-10-29

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Has duplicate Redmine - Defect #13311: In repository view, git commits are ordered by date, not by commit ordersClosed

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Actions #1

Updated by Yuya Nishihara almost 14 years ago

Same issue as #3567.
"order by date/time" is only valid for centralized system like CVS or Subversion.

I have a patch, sort-changesets-by-id.diff, to fix this issue, but which is yet well tested.

Actions #2

Updated by Pieter Smith almost 14 years ago

Thanks, but your changeset does appear to solve the problem for a GIT repo. It did however provide me with enough info to solve it myself:
sort-changes-by-id-for-git.diff

It appears that similar changes will have to be applied to ./test/unit/repository_git_test.rb as well, but I am not familiar enough with the unit test infrastructure to make these changes.

Actions #3

Updated by Pieter Smith almost 14 years ago

Oops, I made a typo: Your changeset does not appear to solve the problem for a GIT repo

Actions #4

Updated by Pieter Smith almost 14 years ago

Crap. sort-changes-by-id-for-git.diff doesn't work:
  1. With the initial fetch, redmine adds the changesets in reverse commit order.
  2. When additional changesets are imported, they are added to the back of the table, also in reverse commit order.
  3. Sorting by changesets.id therefore results in a discontinuity

I tried to reverse the order with which changesets are added to the database by using the :reverse option of scm.revisions(), but all the other mechanisms use the changesets.committed_on field to determine if something is new, so new changesets are not imported resulting in changeset fetch deadlocks.

Actions #5

Updated by Yuya Nishihara almost 14 years ago

Hi, I read #2108 and feel the issue is much tangled than Mercurial's (#3567.)

According to git help log, it sorts changes in chronological order, and Redmine also orders by committed_on. So how do them become different?

BTW, your information about git really helps me. Thanks! :)

Actions #6

Updated by Pieter Smith almost 14 years ago

Not true. The git log --help does not seem to be accurate (and does not make sense either). Here is a clear example of a log pulled from GIT (git log --date-order and git log produces the same results):

commit 1820eb8224442f04f055cce31f30e1813bbc61c8
Author: Pieter Smith <pieter.smith@eu.omron.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 20 03:09:01 2010 -0400

    Also ignore mongrel rails PID files in ./log

commit 0ff42bcb8069b08c8f558ee1763c96167872a41f
Author: Pieter Smith <pieter.smith@eu.omron.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 21 18:02:58 2010 -0400

    Applied mongrel --prefix use patch:
    * http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/183811

commit 12fb96220972e89f8748d81eb7082de1697b12d8
Author: Pieter Smith <pieter.smith@eu.omron.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 19 02:46:56 2010 -0400

    Added redmine checkout plugin

commit 10406e90f8797dc4299717f1d1260b9976b23c1e
Author: Pieter Smith <pieter.smith@eu.omron.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 19 02:37:15 2010 -0400

    Ignore files directory entirely:
    * Allow use of symlinks to place attachments elsewhere

commit 29671188126e774529713847155a57e522f84b4b
Author: Pieter Smith <pieter.smith@eu.omron.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 19 02:33:57 2010 -0400

    Added --proj-id-match and --update-only options to reposman

commit fc6ccc1ea2593f29fcbbe3d021880b2212b93639
Author: Jean-Philippe Lang <jp_lang@yahoo.fr>
Date:   Sun Feb 28 15:12:09 2010 +0000

    tagged version 0.9.3

    git-svn-id: svn+ssh://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/tags/0.9.3@3515 e93f8b46-1217-0410-a6f0-8f06a7374b81

And the same log in redmine:

Actions #7

Updated by Pieter Smith almost 14 years ago

And the missing file:

Actions #8

Updated by Yuya Nishihara almost 14 years ago

Hmm, I'll see it later how git considers, but git-changeset-order-workaround.diff may partially fix the problem. (though I'm not sure.)

It changes the insertion order to be "ORDER BY id" as possible. (so please run clear_changesets to regenerate changesets table, and apply also sort-changesets-by-id.diff patch)

Note: Git backend checks the last 7-day logs everytime calling fetch_changesets.
Then deletes disappeared changesets from database, and finally inserts missing ones.

Actions #9

Updated by Pieter Smith almost 14 years ago

Thank you!

Further testing is needed, but these two patches (sort-changesets-by-id.diff and git-changeset-order-workaround.diff) appear to fix the issue. Will this be incorporated in a near-future release, or will I have to patch future versions?

P.S. How should I run clear_changesets? This didn't work:

@ruby script/runner "Repository.clear_changesets" -e production
I deleted the contents of the changesets table in the MySQL database to test this, but I would prefer not to circumvent the application by messing with the database.

Actions #10

Updated by Yuya Nishihara almost 14 years ago

Hi, thank you for testing it!

Pieter Smith wrote:

Will this be incorporated in a near-future release,
or will I have to patch future versions?

I'm not sure but since it requires to refetch all changesets, it might be harder to be merged into Redmine release.
Anyway, I need to understand more about Git. (I mostly use Mercurial and its Hg-Git extension.)

P.S. How should I run clear_changesets?

Oops! I completely misread the comment of repository/git.rb saying "The repository can still be fully reloaded by calling #clear_changesets."
There seems no way to run it from command-line.

You can regenerate changesets table by: 1. delete repository from settings tab; 2. recreate the same repository, though it's really indirect way. :)

Actions #11

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 13 years ago

FYI: git 1.7 supports "git commit --date DATE".
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt

Actions #12

Updated by Pieter Smith over 13 years ago

Interesting... The commit date can be overridden. Not quite sure how it could practically help with the display ordering though. :(

Actions #14

Updated by Pieter Smith over 13 years ago

If you need any assistance, I'd be glad to help.

Actions #15

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 13 years ago

Actions #16

Updated by Yuya Nishihara over 13 years ago

Toshi MARUYAMA wrote:

Yuya is working now.
Please see http://www.redmine.org/issues/4455#note-123 and http://www.redmine.org/issues/4455#note-130.

Ah, but I've just tried minimizing the impact of #4455 patch, to make a difference only to mercurial backend. ;)

As I said before, my workaround patch for git requires database regeneration. I'm not sure how the maintainers and redmine+git users think, though, it sounds awful to me.

Actions #17

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 13 years ago

There is a patch for time-zone of git adapter at #6346.

Actions #18

Updated by Felix Schäfer over 13 years ago

Toshi MARUYAMA wrote:

There is a patch for time-zone of git adapter at #6346.

No, this is not related. The problem here is that redmine assumes "younger" revisions to be the "newest", which isn't the case with git. The commit date in git is just metadata, it's neither authoritative nor an indication of the ordering of the revisions. The revision order in git is provided only by the linked list nature of revisions, i.e. a revision holds a reference to its parent revision, which in turn holds a reference to its parent, and so on.

This discrepancy between "redmine assumes commit dates in consecutive commits always increases" and "the commit date in git is just metadata" is I think the problem, but that's one that will take more work than "just" fixing the git adapter.

Actions #19

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 13 years ago

Toshi MARUYAMA wrote:

FYI: git 1.7 supports "git commit --date DATE".
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt

Git has a AuthorDate and CommitDate.

"--date" option changes AuthorDate.
AuthorDate and CommitDate can be changed by GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables.

$ GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="1990-01-01 00:00:00 +0100" \
  GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2000-01-01 00:00:00 -0500" \
  git commit -a -m "test." 
$ git log --pretty=fuller -n1 | cat
commit da940a9ed13807bddc63b7bf5c295291d1a7f6ba
Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXXXX>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1990 +0100
Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXXXX>
CommitDate: Sat Jan 1 00:00:00 2000 -0500

    test.

Actions #20

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 13 years ago

git rebase changes CommitDate and keeps AuthorDate.


$ git log --graph --all --pretty=fuller -n2
* commit 585b4abad53aa65fd6bf6109ef6e7ffdd06808a8
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
| AuthorDate: Wed Sep 22 21:26:24 2010 +0900
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
| CommitDate: Wed Sep 22 21:26:24 2010 +0900
| 
|     test01.
|    
| * commit d0331012c8ac9c3c588723547a98695d77ae013a
|/  Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
|   AuthorDate: Wed Sep 22 21:24:08 2010 +0900
|   Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
|   CommitDate: Wed Sep 22 21:24:08 2010 +0900
|   
|       test00.



$ git checkout d0331012c8ac9c3c588723547a98695d77ae013a
$ git rebase 585b4abad53aa65fd6bf6109ef6e7ffdd06808a8



$ git log --graph --all --pretty=fuller -n2
* commit 1809eacbcd8844fab5df80fcd95a7f7315a0c6c4
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
| AuthorDate: Wed Sep 22 21:24:08 2010 +0900
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
| CommitDate: Wed Sep 22 21:35:52 2010 +0900
| 
|     test00.
|  
* commit 585b4abad53aa65fd6bf6109ef6e7ffdd06808a8
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
| AuthorDate: Wed Sep 22 21:26:24 2010 +0900
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
| CommitDate: Wed Sep 22 21:26:24 2010 +0900
| 
|     test01.



$ git log --graph --all  -n2
* commit 1809eacbcd8844fab5df80fcd95a7f7315a0c6c4
| Author: Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
| Date:   Wed Sep 22 21:24:08 2010 +0900
| 
|     test00.
|  
* commit 585b4abad53aa65fd6bf6109ef6e7ffdd06808a8
| Author: Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXXXX>
| Date:   Wed Sep 22 21:26:24 2010 +0900
| 
|     test01.

Actions #21

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 13 years ago

Yuya Nishihara wrote:

Toshi MARUYAMA wrote:

Yuya is working now.
Please see http://www.redmine.org/issues/4455#note-123 and http://www.redmine.org/issues/4455#note-130.

Ah, but I've just tried minimizing the impact of #4455 patch, to make a difference only to mercurial backend. ;)

As I said before, my workaround patch for git requires database regeneration. I'm not sure how the maintainers and redmine+git users think, though, it sounds awful to me.

I referred Yuya's mercurial implementation ,
then I implement ordering only for git.

I pushed to my github and I attach a new patch.

And I post logs and images of following test repository.


$ git log --graph --pretty=fuller -n3 | cat
* commit ce4e78fcffa81e538ad3ef41065a285da462c94c
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXX>
| AuthorDate: Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 1990 +0100
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXX>
| CommitDate: Sun Jul 11 00:00:00 2010 -0500
| 
|     date test 3.
|  
* commit 8312fa08b40540b0b301241a6a6b032fac08d3f3
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXX>
| AuthorDate: Tue Jul 10 00:00:00 1990 +0100
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXX>
| CommitDate: Sat Jul 10 00:00:00 2010 -0500
| 
|     date test 2.
|  
* commit 3329c803bc79b6657660b7e045a8d08802ca32f7
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXX>
| AuthorDate: Thu Jul 12 00:00:00 1990 +0100
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXX>
| CommitDate: Mon Jul 12 00:00:00 2010 -0500
| 
|     date test 1.



$ git log --graph  -n3 | cat
* commit ce4e78fcffa81e538ad3ef41065a285da462c94c
| Author: Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXX>
| Date:   Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 1990 +0100
| 
|     date test 3.
|  
* commit 8312fa08b40540b0b301241a6a6b032fac08d3f3
| Author: Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXX>
| Date:   Tue Jul 10 00:00:00 1990 +0100
| 
|     date test 2.
|  
* commit 3329c803bc79b6657660b7e045a8d08802ca32f7
| Author: Toshi MARUYAMA <XXXXXXXX>
| Date:   Thu Jul 12 00:00:00 1990 +0100
| 
|     date test 1.

Actions #22

Updated by Felix Schäfer over 13 years ago

I hate to quote myself, but:

Felix Schäfer wrote:

The revision order in git is provided only by the linked list nature of revisions, i.e. a revision holds a reference to its parent revision, which in turn holds a reference to its parent, and so on.

So they are ordered by database insertion instead of commit date, still a workaround rather than a solution.

(and don't get me wrong: I appreciate the work you do here, but I think it goes in the wrong direction)

Actions #23

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 13 years ago

Felix Schäfer wrote:

(and don't get me wrong: I appreciate the work you do here, but I think it goes in the wrong direction)

I think better solution for DVCS is creating new tables for DAG .

Please see http://www.redmine.org/issues/4773#note-18 .

Actions #24

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 13 years ago

Rebased multi revisions CommitDate changed same time.
So, ordering with CommitDate is strange.

I pushed these revisions to my github.


$ git log --graph --all --pretty=fuller -n 3 | cat
* commit c65291727d4d674f0ea4796a8a666cf6817494dc
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| AuthorDate: Tue Sep 28 20:32:19 2010 +0900
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| CommitDate: Tue Sep 28 20:32:19 2010 +0900
| 
|     rebase test 10.
|    
| * commit de31c2ab3b20188b2b09e168026805688d65ef65
| | Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| | AuthorDate: Tue Sep 28 20:28:42 2010 +0900
| | Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| | CommitDate: Tue Sep 28 20:28:42 2010 +0900
| | 
| |     rebase test 01.
| |   
| * commit 27a6e34d47c90d632bd2207fb812c8eb49107923
|/  Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
|   AuthorDate: Tue Sep 28 20:28:19 2010 +0900
|   Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
|   CommitDate: Tue Sep 28 20:28:19 2010 +0900
|   
|       rebase test 00.

$ git checkout de31c2ab3b20188b2b09e168026805688d65ef65
$ git rebase   c65291727d4d674f0ea4796a8a666cf6817494dc
$ git log --graph --all --pretty=fuller -n3 | cat
* commit 57a99e05c3ef7bfd43c87146f728e51665234a28
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| AuthorDate: Tue Sep 28 20:28:42 2010 +0900
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| CommitDate: Tue Sep 28 20:39:11 2010 +0900
| 
|     rebase test 01.
|  
* commit dd6129a06b9a38d7d8a80e140cf804d5c76e0e3b
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| AuthorDate: Tue Sep 28 20:28:19 2010 +0900
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| CommitDate: Tue Sep 28 20:39:11 2010 +0900
| 
|     rebase test 00.
|  
* commit c65291727d4d674f0ea4796a8a666cf6817494dc
| Author:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| AuthorDate: Tue Sep 28 20:32:19 2010 +0900
| Commit:     Toshi MARUYAMA <marutosijp2@foo.bar>
| CommitDate: Tue Sep 28 20:32:19 2010 +0900
| 
|     rebase test 10.

Actions #25

Updated by Bernhard Furtmueller over 13 years ago

I'm far away being a git expert but I think rebasing on a public "offical" repository is evil anyway. Please see git-rebase(1) NOTES and RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE. I'm not sure if this could be fixed in redmine with reasonable efforts.

Actions #26

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 13 years ago

Bernhard Furtmueller wrote:

I'm far away being a git expert but I think rebasing on a public "offical" repository is evil anyway.

Yes. In Git and Mercurial, rebasing and history editing on public repository is rare case.
But, rebaseing and history editing on private repository and pushing these revisions to public repository is popular.
Please see http://www.redmine.org/issues/4455#note-146 .

Actions #27

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA about 13 years ago

  • Priority changed from High to Normal
Actions #28

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA about 13 years ago

  • Subject changed from SCM revisions ordered by date/time (should be reverse commit order) to Git: SCM revisions ordered by date/time (should be reverse commit order)
Actions #29

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA about 13 years ago

These are https://github.com/edavis10/chiliproject/tree/ticket/master/30-upstream-code-review image and log.

Eric seemed to rebase or cherry-pick.
Latest CommitDate changed "Sat Feb 5 21:08:10 2011 -0800".

$ git log --graph -b br-chili-eric --pretty=fuller -n3 | cat
* commit dc016d226d1afce84aa7ea478434c7064e5d13f1
| Author:     Jean-Philippe Lang
| AuthorDate: Thu Dec 23 10:04:08 2010 +0000
| Commit:     Eric Davis
| CommitDate: Sat Feb 5 21:08:10 2011 -0800
| 
|     Set VERSION to 1.0.5.
|     
|     git-svn-id: svn+ssh://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/trunk@4568 e93f8b46-1217-0410-a6f0-8f06a7374b81
|  
* commit 3659b7164c6f15971bfd5a7384fa517f5248e8c0
| Author:     Jean-Philippe Lang
| AuthorDate: Thu Dec 23 10:03:32 2010 +0000
| Commit:     Eric Davis
| CommitDate: Sat Feb 5 21:07:14 2011 -0800
| 
|     Updated INSTALL for 1.0.5
|     
|     git-svn-id: svn+ssh://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/trunk@4567 e93f8b46-1217-0410-a6f0-8f06a7374b81
|  
* commit 7d152dd51635e2e19edb0c55b0cb2cad98ad17da
| Author:     Jean-Philippe Lang
| AuthorDate: Thu Dec 23 10:02:08 2010 +0000
| Commit:     Eric Davis
| CommitDate: Sat Feb 5 21:07:07 2011 -0800
| 
|     Updated CHANGELOG for 1.0.5
|     
|     git-svn-id: svn+ssh://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/trunk@4566 e93f8b46-1217-0410-a6f0-8f06a7374b81

Actions #30

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA about 13 years ago

  • Assignee set to Toshi MARUYAMA
Actions #31

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA about 13 years ago

  • Affected version (unused) changed from 0.9.3 to 0.9.0
  • Affected version changed from 0.9.3 to 0.9.0
Actions #32

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA about 13 years ago

This is a patch for r5074 .

Actions #34

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 13 years ago

  • Assignee set to Toshi MARUYAMA
  • Target version set to 1.3.0
Actions #35

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 12 years ago

  • Target version deleted (1.3.0)
Actions #36

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 12 years ago

  • Target version set to Unplanned backlogs
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