Show 404 when switching branches when file was moved

Marius Kriegerowski marius.kriegerowski at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 08:03:38 UTC 2022


Follow-up. Seems like the email was accepted without http links. I’m using OSX mail / gmail. Not sure how I can get the links to you. Anyways, I hope the issue became clear.

> On 16. Apr 2022, at 10:00, Marius Kriegerowski <marius.kriegerowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a follow-up from this thread [REMOVED AFTER I RECEIVED A REPLY THAT THIS MESSAGE WAS BLOCKED BECAUSE OF HTML…]
> 
> When looking at a file that was moved on another branch, switching to that branch still displays that file in its original state. Example:
> 
> [REMOVED AFTER I RECEIVED A REPLY THAT THIS MESSAGE WAS BLOCKED BECAUSE OF HTML…]
> 
> Switching in the top right corner to dunfell should make clear that this file did not exist under that name on the target branch (dunfel). E.g. GitHub is showing simply a 404 which I think is reasonable.
> 
> For comparison, the same file on the GitHub clone: [REMOVED AFTER I RECEIVED A REPLY THAT THIS MESSAGE WAS BLOCKED BECAUSE OF HTML…]
> 
> The current behaviour is misleading regarding what is actually there.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Marius
> 



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